Switzerland travel tips
Internet speed in Switzerland
Median speeds from Ookla's Speedtest Global Index, June 2026 — what a rental's line and your phone actually get, not what the listing says.
Home broadband277 Mbpsmedian download in Zürich0world median 130300+Fast — Several people on calls at once, large uploads, 4K159 Mbps upload · 5 ms latency
Mobile data160 Mbpsmedian download in Zürich0world median 109300+31 Mbps upload · 14 ms latency
By city
under 30 basic · fair · 100+ good · 150+ fast — the tick is the world median.
| Place | Home broadband | Mobile data | Work from it? |
|---|
| Zurichmeasured in Zürich | 277 MbpsFast · 159 up · 5 ms | 160 MbpsFast · 31 up · 14 ms | Yes |
| Switzerland as a wholeOokla publishes no separate figure for Interlaken & the Bernese Oberland, Zermatt, Lucerne; the national median stands for them. | 281 MbpsFast · 109 up · 7 ms | 120 MbpsGood · 24 up · 17 ms | Yes |
A median is the middle of every test run in the place that quarter: half the lines are faster, half slower. Cities usually beat the national number; islands and hill towns usually do not. "Work from it" is this site's own line — 150 Mbps down, 50 up, under 30 ms — for a household on calls all day; one person needs far less.
The guides in Switzerland
Interlaken & the Bernese OberlandSwitzerlandTwo lakes, three of the great north faces, and a railway that goes to 3,454 metres
ZermattSwitzerlandA car-free village under the most photographed mountain in the world, with skiing in every month
LucerneSwitzerlandA painted wooden bridge over a green river, a lake with steamers on it, and two mountains at the end of the line
ZurichSwitzerlandA banking city with a swimmable river through the middle of it, and a lake that turns into a beach in July
St. MoritzSwitzerlandThe resort that invented winter tourism in 1864 on a bet, in a high dry valley where they race horses on the frozen lake and the sun shines about three hundred days a year
VerbierSwitzerlandA sunny terrace above the Rhône valley with the steepest lift-served terrain in Switzerland behind it, and the Freeride World Tour finishes here for a reason
GrindelwaldSwitzerlandA village under the north face of the Eiger, with a railway that climbs inside the mountain to the highest station in Europe
DavosSwitzerlandThe highest town in Europe, built as a tuberculosis sanatorium in thin dry air, now five separate ski mountains and a conference nobody local enjoys
Saas-FeeSwitzerlandA car-free village in a bowl with thirteen four-thousand-metre peaks standing round it and a glacier that skis all summer Every destination, ranked Switzerland travel tips