Sarnen in numbers
- Coordinates
- 46.8961, 8.2453
- Population
- 10 368
- Region
- Obwalden
- Country
- Switzerland, Europe
- Capital
- Bern — 61 km away
Local time right now in Sarnen, Obwalden, Switzerland appears above, in the Europe/Zurich time zone (+1).
Sarnen, Switzerland
Thursday, 12 November 2026
UTC+1 · Europe/Zurich
Local time in Sarnen
UTC+1 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Sarnen, Obwalden.
Sunrise 7:26 AM Solar noon 12:12 PM Sunset 4:58 PM Daylight 9 h 32 min Night 14 h 28 min Civil twilight 6:54 AM – 5:31 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.
The clock does not change between Sarnen, Obwalden and Wilen.
Locations in Sarnen are covered by 1 postal code.
The time zone assigned to Sarnen is Europe/Zurich, held at UTC+1. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise arrives in Sarnen at 7:26 AM today and the sun goes down at 4:58 PM. That gives the day 9 h 32 min of light.