Birchen in numbers
- Coordinates
- 46.9940, 8.4289
- Region
- Nidwalden
- Country
- Switzerland, Europe
- Capital
- Bern — 75 km away
What time is it in Birchen, Nidwalden, Switzerland
This page reports the local time in Birchen, Nidwalden, Switzerland, set by the Europe/Zurich time zone (+2).
Birchen, Switzerland
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC+2 · Europe/Zurich
Local time in Birchen
UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active
Birchen keeps Europe/Zurich clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:46 AM Solar noon 1:13 PM Sunset 6:40 PM Daylight 10 h 53 min Night 13 h 07 min Civil twilight 7:15 AM – 7:10 PM
Weather in Birchen right now
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Birchen and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 6373 Ennetbürgen — 0.2 km away
- 6374 Buochs — 3.0 km away
- 6363 Bürgenstock — 3.4 km away
- 6365 Kehrsiten — 3.7 km away
- 6353 Weggis — 4.2 km away
- 6354 Vitznau — 5.0 km away
- 6370 Oberdorf NW — 5.7 km away
- 6375 Beckenried — 5.8 km away
- 6382 Büren NW — 6.1 km away
- 6371 Stans — 6.2 km away
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 Nidwalden
- Stans 8 393
- Buochs 5 524
- Hergiswil 5 437
- Stansstad 4 471
- Ennetbürgen 4 226
- Beckenried 3 050
Nearby places
- Unterem Stock — 9.2 km
- Chaeserstad — 9.6 km
- Hornmatt — 9.6 km
- Vorder Wissiflue — 9.6 km
- Hinter Walibalm — 9.8 km
- Gigi — 9.9 km
Time and daylight in Birchen
The register holds 10 postal codes for Birchen.
Birchen sets its clocks by Europe/Zurich, which runs UTC+2. Daylight saving time here: Yes.
At Birchen the sun clears the horizon at 7:46 AM and sinks again at 6:40 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 53 min.
Birchen shares one clock with the nearby places Unterem Stock and Chaeserstad.
Questions and answers
- Do you know which time zone Birchen uses?
- Birchen uses the Europe/Zurich time zone, with an offset of +2.
- Does the local time in Birchen change with daylight saving?
- Yes.
- What time does the sun rise in Birchen?
- The sun rises in Birchen at 7:46 AM.