According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Switzerland is April to May and September to October. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Switzerland
- Best months
- April to May and September to October
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Switzerland is best for
Hike turquoise lakes like Oeschinen, road-trip alpine passes, and explore waterfalls around Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in Switzerland by month
Monthly averages around Zurich; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −1 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| February | about 0 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| March | about 4 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| April best | about 9 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| May best | about 13 °C | a lot of rain (135 mm) |
| June | about 17 °C | a lot of rain (138 mm) |
| July | about 19 °C | a lot of rain (138 mm) |
| August | about 18 °C | a lot of rain (141 mm) |
| September best | about 14 °C | a lot of rain (102 mm) |
| October best | about 10 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| November | about 4 °C | some rain (87 mm) |
| December | about 0 °C | some rain (99 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Switzerland
- Capital
- Bern
- Languages
- German, French, Italian and Romansh
- Currency
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, J · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +41
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
Our posts about Switzerland
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