Plan Zermatt

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Zermatt

7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).

Today

Overcast

24° / 15°

UV High

Wed

Showers

24° / 14°

UV High

Thu

Showers

20° / 13°

0.7 mm

UV High

Fri

Fog

20° / 10°

UV High

Sat

Partly cloudy

20° / 13°

UV High

Sun

Overcast

18° / 15°

2.1 mm

UV High

Mon

Fog

19° / 14°

UV High

Climate

Summer (Jun-Sep)

Typical highs around 13°C, lows around 4°C.

Winter (Dec-Mar)

Typical highs around -4°C, lows around -13°C.

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Weather

14° / 5°

Typical high / low

3 mm rainfall this month

Daylight

14.2h

06:27 – 20:40local

Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest MXP · 87 km

Getting around Zermatt

Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.

Local transit operators

VectareRVSSchweizerische Bundesbahnen SBBGornergratbahnZermatt Bergbahnen AGMatterhorn Gotthard Bahn (fo)Elektrobus ZermattPostAuto AGLEXMatterhorn Gotthard Bahn (bvz)FlixBus-eu

About Zermatt

Zermatt is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a year-round population of about 5,800 and is classified as a town by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

Area: 243 km²

Switzerland basics →Country context, advisories, and entry links for the practicalities shown above.

References5

The links below support the changing or licensed reference material on this page. Personal notes and ordinary geographic facts are not footnoted individually.

City background. Wikipedia summary may be clipped or paraphrased. Structured fields are cross-checked against the related references. Related: Wikidata, Open-Elevation, IANA Time Zone Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Zermatt, the car-free village under the Matterhorn

A compact Zermatt food note: village and mountain restaurants to plan around on a Matterhorn trip.

Updated: Jul 6, 2026

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Zermatt is the car-free village at the foot of the Matterhorn, reached by train from Täsch. Most of a Zermatt trip is the mountain itself: Gornergrat, the cable-car network, ski runs, summer trails, and weather that can change the whole day. This list is the food note to plan around that mountain rhythm.

Places in Zermatt

Where to eat

Restaurant Zum See and Spycher sit on the mountain side of a day out, the kind of meal you plan before you set off rather than improvise at the end of a trail or ski run. Book ahead, and check whether the lift, path, or weather pattern makes sense that day.

Restaurant Arvenstube is the village option for a sit-down dinner after coming down. That split is the practical Zermatt planning rule: mountain lunch if the weather is clear, village dinner when the day is done.