swisschecker

The app for Switzerland

Ask Switzerland.

Hiking, cycling, driving and transit on the map, the weather for every place and back to 1864. Asked in your own words, answered from official data.

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Every route. On the map.

Every route.
On the map.

With distance, time and elevation – drag stops with your finger

  • Hike
  • Bike
  • Car
  • Transit
  • Drag start, finish and stops with your finger – the route recalculates
  • Walking time by the Swiss Hiking Federation's formula, with elevation profile
  • Offline maps for places without signal
Every route. On the map.

Train, bus, boat –
in seconds

Connections with platform, changes and the way on the map

  • Platform, changes and the way to the first stop
  • Departures from any stop
  • Stops with a stay: Thun – Bern (2 h) – Zurich
Train, bus, boat – in seconds
Car trains

By car –
and car train

Lötschberg, Furka, Vereina: included when it's faster

  • Lötschberg, Furka and Vereina included when they save time
  • With loading times and the road alternative
By car – and car train

Weather for
every place

MeteoSwiss forecasts hour by hour – mountain villages too

  • The next hours and days at a glance
  • Rain, sun, wind, snow, UV and warnings
Weather for every place
Weather history

Weather
since 1864

Look back through MeteoSwiss measurements – and zoom in to the hour

  • Temperature, precipitation, sunshine and more – for Bern back to 1864
  • Zoom from the yearly mean down to the hour
Weather since 1864

Just ask

  • “Bern to Zermatt”
  • “Hike from Kandersteg to Oeschinensee”
  • “How warm is the Aare in Bern?”
  • “Temperature in Bern since 1864”
  • “Drive from Thun to Brig”
  • “When is the full moon?”
Ask Switzerland.

And much more

Every answer names its source and data date. If a source is missing, the app tells you – nothing is made up.

  • Aare, lakes and rivers
  • Groundwater
  • Your municipality's electricity prices
  • Energy mix and reservoirs
  • Inflation, policy rate, exchange rates
  • Population
  • Popular votes
  • Earthquakes
  • Avalanches and natural hazards
  • Air quality and pollen
  • Charging stations
  • Fibre broadband
  • Commercial register
  • Moon phases

Private, simply

No account, no ads, no tracking. The app understands your questions on the phone and asks the data sources directly – there is no swisschecker server reading along.

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Free – and Premium, once

Three questions a day are free. A one-time purchase – no subscription – removes the limit, adds a dashboard of pinned searches and offline maps.

Official sources

Data from swisstopo, MeteoSwiss, FOEN, FSO, SFOE, ElCom, SNB, SED (ETH Zurich) and SLF, among others; timetable from Opendata.ch, routes from OpenStreetMap.

Questions about the app?

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