Buchs in numbers
- Coordinates
- 47.1674, 9.4779
- Elevation
- 447 m above sea level
- Population
- 10 418
- Region
- Saint Gallen
- Country
- Switzerland, Europe
- Capital
- Bern — 156 km away
- Same name
- 3 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Buchs, Saint Gallen, Switzerland
Find the present-moment local time in Buchs, Saint Gallen, Switzerland, which uses Europe/Zurich (+2).
Buchs, Switzerland
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+2 · Europe/Zurich
Local time in Buchs
UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Buchs, Saint Gallen.
The sun today
Sunrise 06:46 Solar noon 13:23 Sunset 19:59 Daylight 13 h 13 min Night 10 h 47 min Civil twilight 06:15 – 20:31
Weather in Buchs right now
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Buchs and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9471 Buchs SG 1 — 1.2 km away
- 9470 Buchs SG — 1.5 km away
- 9472 Grabs — 2.8 km away
- 9475 Sevelen — 4.5 km away
- 9469 Haag (Rheintal) — 4.7 km away
- 9473 Gams — 6.1 km away
- 9479 Oberschan — 7.4 km away
- 9465 Salez — 7.5 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 Saint Gallen
- Sankt Gallen 75 833
- Rapperswil 34 776
- Wil 23 955
- Jona 17 655
- Gossau 17 043
- Uzwil 12 885
Other places named Buchs
Nearby places
- Buchs (Sg) — 1.2 km
- Wahlkreis Werdenberg — 1.6 km
- Raefis — 2.0 km
- Studen — 2.5 km
- Rans — 3.0 km
- Haag (Rheintal) — 4.8 km
Buchs: clock, sun and surroundings
Buchs and nearby Rans and Haag (Rheintal) are never an hour apart.
Addresses in Buchs fall under 8 postal codes.
Buchs sets its clocks by Europe/Zurich, which runs UTC+2. Daylight saving time here: Yes.
Today the sun rises over Buchs at 06:46 and sets at 19:59. That is 13 h 13 min of daylight in all.
Questions and answers
- What is the correct time zone for Buchs?
- The correct time zone for Buchs is Europe/Zurich, with an offset of +2.
- Is daylight saving time in force in Buchs?
- Daylight saving in Buchs: Yes.
- What time is first light in Buchs?
- The sun rises at 06:46.