Switzerland travel guide
Before you go to Switzerland
- Currency
- CHF CHF
- Emergency number
- 112 / 117
- Plug type
- Type J (unique Swiss 3-pin)
- Tap water
- safe
- Tipping
- optional
- Bargaining
- Not expected
- eSIM
- Available
- Card networks
- Visa, Mastercard, Amex
- ATM fees
- Usually free at bank ATMs
Cities in Switzerland
- Bern Switzerland's federal city, wrapped in a bend of the Aare — a UNESCO-listed old town since 1983 with six kilometres of arcades among…
- Zurich Switzerland's largest city, where the Limmat leaves the lake — banks and boutiques along Bahnhofstrasse, the twin towers of the…
- Geneva French-speaking Switzerland's international city, where the Rhône leaves the lake — the Jet d'Eau off the quay, UN agencies and the Red…
- Lucerne Set where the Reuss leaves Lake Lucerne within sight of Pilatus and Rigi — the wooden Chapel Bridge, first built in the 14th century, runs…
- Interlaken On the flats between Lakes Thun and Brienz, under the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau — and the rail gateway to the Jungfraujoch at 3,454 m, the…
- Basel An art city on the Rhine, close to where the Swiss, French and German borders meet — the Kunstmuseum opened the world's first public art…
- Lausanne A hilly city on Lake Geneva facing Évian across the water, and the Olympic capital — the IOC is based here, the Notre-Dame cathedral dates…
- Lugano The largest city of Ticino and of Italian-speaking Switzerland — the waterfront curves in a crescent between Monte Brè and San Salvatore,…
- Zermatt Zermatt is one of the world's great mountain resort villages — a car-free Alpine settlement at 1 620 m altitude in the shadow of the iconic…
- St. Moritz An Engadine resort at 1,800 m that hosted the Winter Olympics twice, in 1928 and 1948 — the Cresta Run toboggan course is here, horses have…
- Grindelwald A Bernese Oberland valley village at 1,034 m walled in by the ridge from the Wetterhorn to the Eiger, with glaciers over a fifth of its…
- Montreux Lake Geneva's riviera town — the Montreux Jazz Festival every July since 1967, a statue of Freddie Mercury facing the water on Place du…