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What time is it in Alken, Flanders, Belgium

The time in Alken, Flanders, Belgium at this very moment is shown below, in the Europe/Brussels zone (+2).

Alken, Belgium

Saturday, 5 September 2026

UTC+2 · Europe/Brussels

Local time in Alken

UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active

Local time in Alken, Flanders.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:59 AM Solar noon 1:39 PM Sunset 8:18 PM Daylight 13 h 19 min Night 10 h 41 min Civil twilight 6:25 AM – 8:52 PM

Weather in Alken right now

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Alken and its neighbours

Sint-Lambrechts-Herk Wellen Stevoort Kortessem Hasselt Zepperen Nieuwerkerken Borgloon Diepenbeek Alken
Alken at 50.8755, 5.3056 with the nearest towns within 8.7 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.

Alken in numbers

Coordinates
50.8755, 5.3056
Population
10 933
Region
Flanders
Country
Belgium, Europe
Capital
Brussels — 67 km away
Same name
2 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Flanders

Other places named Alken

Same time zone — Europe/Brussels

Nearby places

About the time in Alken

Alken contains 1 postal code.

Time in Alken runs on Europe/Brussels, which is UTC+2. Does daylight saving time apply here? Yes.

The sun comes up over Alken at 6:59 AM today and drops below the horizon at 8:18 PM. That is 13 h 19 min between the two.

Sint-Lambrechts-Herk and Wellen sit close to Alken and run on the same clock.

Questions and answers

What time zone covers Alken?
The time zone covering Alken is Europe/Brussels, with an offset of +2.
Does Alken switch to summer time during the year?
Daylight saving time observed in Alken: Yes.
When does daylight begin in Alken?
Daylight begins at 6:59 AM.
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