Aarau in numbers
- Coordinates
- 47.3925, 8.0442
- Population
- 21 503
- Region
- Aargau
- Country
- Switzerland, Europe
- Capital
- Bern — 67 km away
What time is it in Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland
This page reports the local time in Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland, set by the Europe/Zurich time zone (+2).
Aarau, Switzerland
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
UTC+2 · Europe/Zurich
Local time in Aarau
UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Aarau.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:54 AM Solar noon 1:14 PM Sunset 6:33 PM Daylight 10 h 39 min Night 13 h 21 min Civil twilight 7:23 AM – 7:04 PM
Weather in Aarau right now
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Aarau and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 5000
- 5004
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 Aargau
Nearby places
- Bezirk Aarau — 1.8 km
- Eppenberg-Woeschnau — 2.0 km
- Kuttigen — 2.5 km
- Buchs — 2.7 km
- Erlinsbach — 2.8 km
- Rohr Ag — 2.9 km
Aarau: clock, sun and surroundings
At Aarau the sun clears the horizon at 7:54 AM and sinks again at 6:33 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 39 min.
Aarau, Bezirk Aarau and Eppenberg-Woeschnau all run on one and the same time.
Addresses in Aarau fall under 2 postal codes.
Aarau stands in Europe/Zurich, an offset of UTC+2 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does local time in Aarau follow?
- Local time in Aarau follows Europe/Zurich, with an offset of +2.
- Is the time in Aarau adjusted seasonally?
- Yes.
- What time is first light in Aarau?
- The sun rises at 7:54 AM.