Current time in Basel, Switzerland
The current local time in Basel is shown below. Basel observes CET in winter and CEST during daylight saving time.
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What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Basel?
Basel shares Central European Time with the rest of Switzerland and with the immediately adjacent French and German territories. The trinational border at the Three Countries Corner sees no clock change in any direction. The city sits at around 7.6 degrees east, slightly west of the CET solar meridian. Switzerland is not an EU member but observes the EU's DST schedule by parallel federal legislation, keeping the trinational region's clocks synchronised across all three jurisdictions throughout the year.
What are the working hours in Basel?
Basel's working economy is dominated by the pharmaceutical industry, with Roche and Novartis maintaining their global headquarters here and producing one of the highest concentrations of pharmaceutical activity in the world. The city is also home to the Bank for International Settlements, the central banks' central bank. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:30. The Basel Fasnacht carnival in February, beginning at 04:00 on Morgestraich Monday and running for three full days, is the largest annual cultural event and produces effective city-wide closure during the run.
Where is Basel?
Basel sits at the trinational corner where Switzerland, France, and Germany meet, on the Rhine where it makes its right-angle turn from west-to-east into a north-to-south course toward the Netherlands. The municipal population is around 175,000, with the wider trinational metropolitan area extending into the French Haut-Rhin and German Baden-Württemberg to reach close to 850,000. The Rhine is navigable to commercial barges as far as Basel, making the city Switzerland's only river port and an important transhipment point for landlocked Swiss trade.