Grenchen in numbers
- Coordinates
- 47.1972, 7.3875
- Population
- 15 927
- Region
- Solothurn
- Country
- Switzerland, Europe
- Capital
- Bern — 28 km away
What time is it in Grenchen, Solothurn, Switzerland
Local time right now in Grenchen, Solothurn, Switzerland appears above, in the Europe/Zurich time zone (+1).
Grenchen, Switzerland
Friday, 6 November 2026
UTC+1 · Europe/Zurich
Local time in Grenchen
UTC+1 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Grenchen.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:22 AM Solar noon 12:15 PM Sunset 5:09 PM Daylight 9 h 47 min Night 14 h 13 min Civil twilight 6:49 AM – 5:41 PM
Weather in Grenchen right now
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Grenchen and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 2540
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 Solothurn
Nearby places
Grenchen: clock, sun and surroundings
Sunrise for Grenchen today is set at 7:22 AM, sunset at 5:09 PM. Daylight covers 9 h 47 min.
The time given for Grenchen holds for nearby Lengnau and Romont too.
1 codes are used to address mail in Grenchen.
The local zone in Grenchen is Europe/Zurich, standing at UTC+1. Whether daylight saving applies: No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is used by Grenchen?
- Grenchen uses the Europe/Zurich time zone, which has an offset of +1.
- Does the time in Grenchen vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Grenchen: No.
- When is the sun down in Grenchen?
- The sun goes down at 5:09 PM.