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 (+2).
Grenchen, Switzerland
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC+2 · Europe/Zurich
Local time in Grenchen
UTC+2 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Grenchen.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:52 AM Solar noon 1:17 PM Sunset 6:42 PM Daylight 10 h 50 min Night 13 h 10 min Civil twilight 7:21 AM – 7:13 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 7:52 AM, sunset at 6:42 PM. Daylight covers 10 h 50 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+2. Whether daylight saving applies: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is used by Grenchen?
- Grenchen uses the Europe/Zurich time zone, which has an offset of +2.
- Does the time in Grenchen vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Grenchen: Yes.
- When is the sun down in Grenchen?
- The sun goes down at 6:42 PM.