Want a random city in Switzerland? This tool includes cities and towns from Geneva to St. Moritz, covering every region.
This tool gives you a random Swiss city or town—whether in the Alps, the Jura, or beside one of the country’s many lakes. The results span all of Switzerland’s language regions.
Random City in Switzerland
For this randomizer, only towns with at least 10,000 people made the cut. This generator features 151 towns in Switzerland, based on the 2025 city list from World Population Review.
If you play with the randomizer for a while, you might notice that parts of Zurich can also appear as numbered kreises. These are 12 legally separate districts of Zurich.
Use the randomizer below to reveal a random Swiss city.
Your random city in Switzerland is…
Dieser Zufalls-Stadtgenerator wählt eine zufällige Stadt in der Schweiz aus. Er umfasst alle 151 Schweizer Städte und Gemeinden mit mindestens 10.000 Einwohnern. Die Ergebnisse zeigen auch die Bevölkerungszahl und den Standort jedes zufällig ausgewählten Ortes.
My Random Experiences in Switzerland
I’ve visited a completely random town in Austria, but not in Switzerland. Still, a random encounter in 2012 deeply shaped my relationship with the country.
During my first solo trip in Europe, I was trying to cut costs by sleeping in train stations. I attempted this in Zurich—unaware that the station would close for the night. A local noticed me wandering around and came to check if I needed help. When she heard I planned to sleep at the station, she told me it wasn’t possible.
What she did next was incredible: right then and there, she offered to host me.
She was a Couchsurfer who had hosted travelers before. I knew about Couchsurfing and planned to try it later, but I had no prior experience. I accepted her offer, and despite a decades-wide age gap, we shared mutual interests and became friends.
After that, I visited her several times during later trips to Switzerland—and even met her in Africa when we happened to be there at the same time.
This website began with stories from my own travels, but evolved with randomness at its heart. This Swiss city picker is one of many randomness-based tools I’ve created to spark curiosity and inspiration. I’ve also made similar city randomizers for Switzerland’s neighbors: Austria, France, Germany, and Italy.
(I have also visited Liechtenstein, but there are not enough cities there for a randomizer.)