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Switzerland on foot, seen from above before you go.

34 hikes in 3D on swisstopo terrain, with official walking times and places to eat. Starting with Valais, the Bernese Oberland and the Vaud Alps.

Relief map of Switzerland showing where each hike starts5-Seenweg Zermatt3 h 15Adelboden → Lenk4 h 30Aigle → Leysin3 h 10Sentier des trois tours de Leysin2 h 45Sentier du Sel3 h 35Blatten, Belalp → Riederalp, Riederfurka3 h 45Château-d'Oex → L'Etivaz5 h 30Chemin des Narcisses2 h 00Rochers-de-Naye5 h 35Chemin des pyramides de gypse3 h 35Sentier des ponts historiques du Sépey2 h 20Eiger Trail1 h 55Lauberhorn Trail2 h 50Mountain View Trail2 h 00Gampel → Ausserberg3 h 45Gemsweg Saas-Fee2 h 20Grand Bisse d'Ayent3 h 10Sentier Panorama 40004 h 30Höhi-Wispile-Lauenensee-Weg4 h 00Iffigsee-Rundweg4 h 25Iseltwald → Brienz3 h 25Kandersteg → Selden3 h 00La Fouly → Champex-Lac4 h 30Les Diablerets → Villars-sur-Ollon6 h 10Tour de La Palette3 h 10Les Mosses → Château-d'Oex4 h 15Niederhorn-Panoramaweg3 h 35Panoramaweg Schynige Platte1 h 55Schynige Platte → Grindelwald, First5 h 45Randa Hängebrückenweg3 h 10Sentier du Balcon du Mont-Blanc3 h 15Tour de l'Argentine5 h 15Tour du Lac de Moiry4 h 45Vercorin → Grimentz5 h 25

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Tell us what you're looking for

The assistant picks from our hikes, with official walking times and the MeteoSwiss forecast. It also tells you what it cannot check.

Ideas for your next day out

Pick what you feel like: the hikes that match, flown over in 3D before you go.

Guides and categories

To choose, prepare and go: practical guides, and hikes by category.

Stories along the trail

What happened where you're about to walk.

  1. The Eiger north face in the evening light

    The North Face, 1858 to 1938

    The Eiger was first climbed on 11 August 1858, by the west flank, by the Irishman Charles Barrington with the guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.

    Eiger Trail1 h 55
  2. The Breitling Orbiter 1, Place du Village, Château-d'Oex

    The village where the balloon set off around the world

    In 1800, a great fire destroyed the wooden houses built on the central hill of Château-d'Oex. The dean Philippe-Sirice Bridel organised collections to rebuild the village in stone.

    Château-d'Oex → L'Etivaz5 h 30
  3. The rack railway near the summit

    A railway built with mules

    Work began on 10 March 1891. Engineer Adolphe Jaques ran the site, and building materials went up on mules. The rack railway opened on 27 July 1892, after less than two years of work.

    Rochers-de-Naye5 h 35
  4. The Randa rockslide, seen from the Europaweg

    When the mountain came down

    In 1991, three rockslides broke away from the Längenfluhberg: about 15 million m³ of rock on 18 April, 100,000 m³ on 21 April and 33 million m³ on 9 May.

    Randa Hängebrückenweg3 h 10

Three regions, 34 hikes

Every region with all its hikes. Swipe to browse them.

The Moiry Dam

Valais

11 hikes, 2 h 20 to 5 h 25 of walkingThe region guide
Iseltwald (BE), seen from a drone

Bernese Oberland

11 hikes, 1 h 55 to 5 h 45 of walkingThe region guide
Lac d'Aï

Vaud Alps

12 hikes, 2 h 00 to 6 h 10 of walkingThe region guide

Find a hike

34 hikes

Region
Walking time
Climb
Difficulty

Questions people ask

How many hikes does Bivio offer?

34 hikes in 3 regions: Valais (11), Bernese Oberland (11) and Vaud Alps (12). Each one has its 3D flyover, official walking time, weather and train home.

Where do the walking times come from?

From the official SwitzerlandMobility routes and the Federal Roads Office: it is the time on the yellow signposts, breaks not included.

Does the 3D show the real terrain?

Yes. The terrain comes from swisstopo's swissALTI3D model and the imagery from SWISSIMAGE aerial photos, with a point every 5 m near the trail.

How fresh are the weather and train times?

The forecast comes from MeteoSwiss and the departures from the official public transport timetable, read live and shown with the time they were read.

Which is the shortest?

Eiger Trail: 1 h 55 of walking according to SwitzerlandMobility, 6.0 km, 100 m of climbing.

Where our figures come from

  1. Official route and walking time

    Every hike follows a waymarked SwitzerlandMobility route. Walking times and grades are theirs, read from their public file, with its date.

  2. swisstopo terrain

    The 3D view, profile, distance and climb are calculated on swisstopo's swissALTI3D elevation model and SWISSIMAGE aerial imagery.

  3. Snow, closed trails, weather

    The forecast comes from MeteoSwiss, snow depth from the MeteoSwiss and SLF stations, closed trails from FEDRO and the cantons, each with the time we read it. Until a value is read at its source, nothing is shown in its place.