Bochum in numbers
- Coordinates
- 51.4803, 7.2183
- Population
- 385 729
- Region
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Country
- Germany, Europe
- Capital
- Berlin — 439 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The clock for Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is kept here in the Europe/Berlin time zone (+1).
Bochum, Germany
Thursday, 5 November 2026
UTC+1 · Europe/Berlin
Local time in Bochum
UTC+1 · no daylight saving time
Bochum keeps Europe/Berlin clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:32 AM Solar noon 12:16 PM Sunset 5:00 PM Daylight 9 h 27 min Night 14 h 33 min Civil twilight 6:57 AM – 5:35 PM
Weather in Bochum right now
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Bochum and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 44787
- 44789
- 44791
- 44793
- 44795
- 44797
- 44799
- 44801
- 44803
- 44805
- 44807
- 44809
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.
Largest cities in North Rhine-Westphalia
Other places named Bochum
- Bochum Limpopo, South Africa
Same time zone — Europe/Berlin
- Berlin Germany
- Hamburg Germany
- Munich Germany
- Koeln Germany
- Frankfurt Am Main Germany
- Duesseldorf Germany
Nearby places
- Steinkuhl — 3.1 km
- Steinacker — 3.7 km
- Wattenscheid — 5.2 km
- Oberstiepel — 5.3 km
- Uemmingen — 5.8 km
- Sudholz — 5.8 km
About the time in Bochum
Bochum carries 12 postal codes.
The zone name for Bochum is Europe/Berlin and the offset is UTC+1. Daylight saving time: No.
Today's schedule for Bochum: sunrise 7:32 AM, sunset 5:00 PM. That gives 9 h 27 min of daylight.
Steinkuhl and Steinacker, both nearby, hold the same time as Bochum.
Questions and answers
- Can Bochum's time zone be given as Europe/Berlin?
- Yes, Bochum's time zone is Europe/Berlin, with an offset of +1.
- Is there a seasonal clock change in Bochum?
- No.
- What is the local sunset time in Bochum?
- Local sunset is 5:00 PM.