Lausanne, Switzerland
Current time in Switzerland
Time zone: CEST (UTC/GMT +02:00) — Europe/Zurich
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, 2 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +02:00) Europe/Zurich |
Current Time in other Cities of Switzerland
What time zone is Lausanne in?
Lausanne keeps CEST (2 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+02:00). Its database zone is Europe/Zurich — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
This zone does shift. On Sunday, 25 October 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Lausanne moves to CET, so anything booked across that date needs checking.
Time gaps from Lausanne right now
Current gap between Lausanne and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Lausanne is 6 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Lausanne is 9 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Lausanne is 1 hour ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | same time as Lausanne |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Lausanne is 2 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Lausanne is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Lausanne is 6 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Lausanne is 7 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Lausanne is 8 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Lausanne is 5 hours ahead |
Scheduling calls with Lausanne
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Lausanne local time.
| Paris | 09:00–17:00 in Lausanne | 8 hours overlap |
| London | 10:00–17:00 in Lausanne | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–15:00 in Lausanne | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–13:30 in Lausanne | 4.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Cities on the same clock as Lausanne
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Europe/Zurich alongside Lausanne, including through any clock change.
Genève Basel Bern Geneva Lucerne Lugano St. Gallen Winterthur
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