Schachen in numbers
- Coordinates
- 47.3865, 9.2445
- Elevation
- 789 m above sea level
- Region
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Country
- Switzerland, Europe
- Capital
- Bern — 144 km away
- Same name
- 28 more places in the world share this name
Learn the current time in Schachen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland, a place in the Europe/Zurich time zone (+1).
Schachen, Switzerland
Saturday, 14 November 2026
UTC+1 · Europe/Zurich
Local time in Schachen
UTC+1 · no daylight saving time
Schachen keeps Europe/Zurich clock_time.
Sunrise 7:27 AM Solar noon 12:09 PM Sunset 4:51 PM Daylight 9 h 24 min Night 14 h 36 min Civil twilight 6:54 AM – 5:24 PM
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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.
10 postal codes describe the layout of Schachen.
The name of the time zone in Schachen is Europe/Zurich, and it runs UTC+1. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise today in Schachen lands at 7:27 AM; sunset lands at 4:51 PM. That is 9 h 24 min of light.
In Herisau and Alterschwil the clock agrees with Schachen.