The Swiss motorway vignette is a road tax sticker for your car.
The vignette allows you to drive on 99% of all roads in Switzerland.
Additional tolls for specific routes are very rare.
Once you have the vignette, youre good to go.
The 2023 vignette is valid from December 1, 2022, through January 31, 2024.
Thats regardless of the time of purchase.
There are no daily, weekly or monthly vignettes.
You need to buy a motorway vignette for cars, motorcycles, motorhomes,
campervans, trailers and caravans.
The Swiss motorway vignette is for vehicles with a weight up to 3500 kg.
Rental cars already have a vignette.
If you rent a car elsewhere in Europe, a vignette for
Switzerland is often not included.
Without the vignette, it can be time consuming and stressful
to avoid the Swiss motorways.
You would be limited to small roads that do not require the vignette.
Personally, we buy the motorway vignette for nearly all of our holidays, even
though we mostly take public transport.
Thats because our incoming and outgoing journeys are by car.
When we travel to Switzerland by train, we do not buy the vignette, nor do we rent a car.
You can buy the vignette at gas stations near the Swiss border in
Austria, France, Germany and Italy.
Or, you can buy it online before your trip.
You can then cross the border using the fast lane for vehicles
which already have a vignette.
The fine for driving on a Swiss motorway without a vignette is CHF
200, plus the costs of a vignette.
If you drive with a vignette that is not applied correctly or damaged, that is also
considered driving without a vignette.
You can apply your vignette either in the lower left corner of the
windshield, the upper left corner, or in the middle near the rearview mirror.
Pick the place where it does not obstruct your view and where its
clearly visible from the outside.
Once attached, the vignette cant be moved, so carefully select and clean
the place where you want to stick it.
Using tape, leaving it on the dashboard, or any other alternative way makes it invalid.
Visit my swiss alps.com/motorwayvignette for further details.
Enjoy your drive.