Places to live within commuting range
Enter your workplace and how long you are willing to travel at most. You see every municipality within that time, the cheapest first: taxes, health insurance and electricity for your household, with the difference to your workplace.
Major workplaces
Ready-made lists for major workplaces. Household: Couple, no kids, CHF 100,000.
- Zurich30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Geneva30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Basel30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Bern30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Lausanne30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Winterthur30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Lucerne30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- St. Gallen30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Lugano30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Biel30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Fribourg30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Neuchâtel30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Chur30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Sion30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Schaffhausen30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Aarau30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Thun30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Zug30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Baden30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
- Kloten30 min public transport30 min car45 min public transport45 min car
How to read these figures
- Travel times are federal model values for an average weekday, as of 2017: averaged over the whole home municipality and the whole workplace municipality, for public transport including the way to and from the stop. Your door-to-door time can differ. For a specific address, the report calculates it again.
- Car: driving time on the road network with the traffic of an average weekday.
- Total annual cost: income tax, health insurance premiums (deductible 300) and electricity (4,500 kWh) for the chosen household, without commuting costs. Differences rounded to CHF 100.
- Rents and property prices are not included; there is no data per municipality.
Travel times: Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE, transport modelling DETEC (NPVM), data as of 2017, CC BY 4.0; municipalities as of 2026. Costs: FTA (taxes 2026), FOPH (health insurance 2027), ElCom (electricity 2027). Fog days: MeteoSwiss, average 2023-2025, October to February. Methodology and data sources