Ferries in Switzerland

84 routes and 8 operators. Fares below are the cheapest we currently sell on each.

We sell 84 Ferries routes in Switzerland, serving 22 places through 8 operators. 20 of those routes cross a border. The cheapest fare is €11.88 and the median route runs 25 km.

Checked September 30, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network

Ferries in Switzerland, in numbers

What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.

  • 84Routes we sell
  • 22Places served
  • 8Operators
  • 64Domestic routes
  • 20Cross border routes
  • 25 kmMedian route
  • 51 kmLongest route
  • 2Countries
Routes

The busiest Ferries routes in Switzerland

Priced from the same engine that answers the search box, on the next three weeks of departures.

The routes we sell in Switzerland, busiest first, priced over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Geneva to Lausanne ferry€11.883h 35m51 km
Lausanne to Geneva ferry€11.883h 30m51 km
Friedrichshafen to Kreuzlingen ferry€11.882h 31m23 km
Kreuzlingen to Friedrichshafen ferry€11.882h 32m23 km
Konstanz to Schaffhausen ferry€11.883h 14m41 km
Schaffhausen to Konstanz ferry€11.883h 13m41 km
Rapperswil to Zurich ferry€11.882h 36m26 km
Zurich to Rapperswil ferry€11.882h 42m26 km
Rapperswil to Uster ferry€11.882h 18m16 km
Uster to Rapperswil ferry€11.882h 19m16 km
Biel/Bienne to Neuchâtel ferry€11.882h 47m29 km
Neuchâtel to Biel/Bienne ferry€11.882h 47m29 km
Rapperswil to Zug ferry€11.882h 38m24 km
Zug to Rapperswil ferry€11.882h 38m24 km
Uster to Zug ferry€11.882h 37m25 km
Zug to Uster ferry€11.882h 38m25 km
Zurich to Zug ferry€11.882h 30m22 km
Zug to Zurich ferry€11.882h 29m22 km
Lausanne to Montreux ferry€11.882h 34m23 km
Montreux to Lausanne ferry€11.882h 32m23 km
Horgen to Rapperswil ferry€11.882h 23m17 km
Rapperswil to Horgen ferry€11.882h 21m17 km
Kreuzlingen to Schaffhausen ferry€11.883h 12m41 km
Schaffhausen to Kreuzlingen ferry€11.883h 9m41 km
Lausanne to Vevey ferry€11.882h 25m17 km
Vevey to Lausanne ferry€11.882h 21m17 km
Geneva to Nyon ferry€11.882h 28m21 km
Nyon to Geneva ferry€11.882h 29m21 km
Lausanne to Nyon ferry€11.882h 53m34 km
Nyon to Lausanne ferry€11.882h 56m34 km
Biel/Bienne to Solothurn ferry€11.882h 37m23 km
Solothurn to Biel/Bienne ferry€11.882h 35m23 km

The trip is the easy half to plan. The days in Zurich are the half people leave until last.

A guided tour group

What to book in Zurich before you go

The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Ferries, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km84100%Rapperswil, 16 km
Across the border

Where Switzerland connects to

Countries reachable from Switzerland by Ferries on a route we sell.

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Italy1260%
Germany840%
Carriers

Ferry operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

  • CGN
  • ZSG
  • NLM
  • Schweizerische Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Untersee und Rhein
  • BSG
  • LMN

Ferry destinations

Common questions about Ferries in Switzerland

What Ferries routes are there in Switzerland?

We sell 84 Ferries routes in Switzerland, serving 22 places, run by 8 operators. Every one of those routes has an operator that actually serves it, so the count is the network we can sell rather than every pair of places on a map.

How much do Ferries tickets in Switzerland cost?

The cheapest Ferries fare in Switzerland is €11.88 for one passenger, across the 84 routes we sell there. The median route runs 25 km in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against before comparing it to anywhere else.

Can I travel out of Switzerland by Ferries?

20 of the Ferries routes we sell touching Switzerland cross a border and 64 stay inside it, reaching 2 other countries including Italy, Germany. Cross border routes are usually the ones where the fare and the journey time differ most between operators.

Which operators run Ferries services in Switzerland?

8 operators run Ferries services on routes we sell in Switzerland: Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe, BSG, CGN, Katamaran-Reederei Bodensee, LMN. Each is a real carrier from the published operator catalog, and each has its own fares and conditions. The operator table on this page compares them on speed, flexibility and what is on board.

What is the longest Ferries route in Switzerland?

The longest Ferries route we sell touching Switzerland runs from Geneva to Lausanne, 51 km in a straight line. The median route in the country is 25 km, so this one is a considerable outlier and the fares on it behave differently from the rest.

Where these numbers come from

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Distances

Other ways to travel here

The wider region

Zurich sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Zurich Hauptbahnhof

Sort by distance from Zurich Hauptbahnhof and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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