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Hitchhiking in Switzerland

Hitchhiking to Switzerland

Recent reviews in Switzerland

46.0878, 7.05507

Fantastic spot, lots of traffic going towards Italy. Got a ride a very long way in 20 minutes. Stand at the traffic circle with a sign just before the gas stations and people can pull into the gas station parking lot to pick you up

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 144 km ↘

―MrZachyPants, September 2025

46.48679, 6.7696

Not a great place for people to see you, but lots of space to stop when they do see you. Got a ride to martigny with a sign that said Italy (final destination Milan)

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 60 km ↘

―MrZachyPants, September 2025

46.48994, 6.72913

Very low traffic not going very far. I made it to chexbres which has an on-ramp to the highway with more traffic

rating: 3/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 4 km →

―MrZachyPants, September 2025

46.54858, 6.62486

Shady and lots of traffic heading east

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 13 km ↘

―MrZachyPants, September 2025

46.58093, 6.60501

Not a lot of space to stop but easy to get closer to Lausanne and 9 highway

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 4 km ↓

―MrZachyPants, September 2025

46.6753, 6.68351

Easy to get closer to Lausanne and 9 highway

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 15 km ↙

―MrZachyPants, September 2025

47.43823, 8.34724

Offer to Zurich in 1 minute, Feldkirch (my destination) in 5 minutes. Lots of cars, good spot

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 121 km →

―AIex, September 2025

46.94471, 7.47181

It was Saturday morning and not much cars, but I just stay there around 20 minutes and got direct car to Thun

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 👍

―vikulina, Sat 06 Sep 2025, 09:24

46.34002, 6.16464

pointless, just go to the border

rating: 1/5

―Melampsorella, September 2025

46.34557, 6.15292

Got a ride instantly, straight to Renens. A lot of people live in france (its cheaper) and go to switzerland for work, so in the morning theres a lot of traffic, some to geneve and some to lausanne, maybe even further.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 🪧, ride: 49 km ↗

―Melampsorella, September 2025

46.3373, 6.16704

If you get to this spot ignore it and walk straight to the french-swiss border. theres no point, we tried for three hours until a guy stopped and took us to his house because we looked so miserable. we also tried at the entrance to motorway. no point

rating: 1/5, wait: 180 min 🪧

―Melampsorella, September 2025

46.52308, 6.58918

a lot of space to stop, probably not very legal. We got lucky and got a ride to Zurich

rating: 5/5, wait: 40 min 🪧, ride: 238 km ↗

―Melampsorella, September 2025

47.44994, 8.70114

couldnt get anyone going to st gallen, so had to go around just to get outta here. maybe if we just stood with a sign at the exit it would work better

rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min 💬, ride: 53 km ↗

―Melampsorella, September 2025

47.6396, 9.20121

No real space for cars to stop

rating: 3/5, wait: 25 min 👍, ride: 23 km ↘

―Melampsorella, September 2025

47.53479, 9.39693

We stood near th fruit stand. Great visibility, good spot for direction of Austria or Germany

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 33 km →

―Melampsorella, September 2025

47.57408, 7.56597

perfect spot. we waited 3 minutes to get to belfort

rating: 5/5, wait: 3 min, ride: 66 km ←

―Anonymous, Sun 07 Sep 2025, 14:15

47.52744, 7.70018

Lot of cars, lot of possibilities

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 33 km ↖

―Giulio, September 2025

46.44628, 6.29785

It was really hot when I was there and the parking lot is in the complete sun. Difficult to get further then Geneva as most cars are Swiss and don’t go further. Eventually I found someone who took me close to Grenoble.

rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 82 km ↓

―simmens, September 2025

46.99002, 7.47648

It is very good spot on working days to go direction to Geneva or Lausanne. However on Saturday I was waiting for 3 hours any car to this direction and it never came. 4 cars stoped for me and were ready to take me to the mountains, but I skipped it hoping to get direct ar to Geneva. Then two guys approached me and offered a ride to Mont Blanc and I couldn't resist :)

rating: 4/5, wait: 180 min 💬+🪧, ride: 145 km ↓

―estasbien, Sat 06 Sep 2025, 16:20

47.39118, 8.50713

A lot of slow traffic, still waited 30 min to Basel, but a perfect spot nonetheless

rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 90 km ←

―spykm, September 2025

Recent reviews mentioning Switzerland

45.78898, 4.90718

got a ride but the guy dropped us in the middle of motorway and we had to deal with gendarmerie. direction switzerland

rating: 3/5, wait: 80 min

―Melampsorella, September 2025

46.34557, 6.15292

45.44587, 9.07495

Good spot in summer. Don't know why was full pf switzerland cars. A german girl drop me at basel

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 318 km ↖

―Giulio, September 2025

45.97672, 5.31257

Good amount of traffic, and cars are going slow and will read your sign. Lyon definitely is easier, I was trying to go to Switzerland but with a sign to Geneva I got a ride in about 20 minutes. And super lucky they were actually going to lausanne which is where I also wanted to go.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 145 km ↗

―MrZachyPants, August 2025

43.71307, 4.13279

The pot is perfect, i was aiming italy so it takes long searching for italian cars, but if you want to go in france is super easy. Is possible also for germany and spain or switzerland and netherlans(in summer of course).
There is a MC, the station is open 24, i slept there because was raining.
There are 2 parking spot.

rating: 5/5, wait: 200 min, ride: 487 km →

―Giulio, August 2025

44.93474, 19.91525

Worst place you can find for hitchhiking. We waited here for more than a day in the summer. Every car is rather full of families returning from vacation or refugees with car from switzerland. We had a cardboard saying Hrvatska, then we switched to Croatia, then we just asked people, but nobody wanted to take us or they had full car. After day on this gas station it seems like spawn for refugees with expensive cars. Stay in Belgrad instead, it's a nice city

rating: 1/5, wait: 1440 min 💬+🪧

―Agamaj, Sat 09 Aug 2025, 16:00

48.04951, 7.81057

The perfect spot if you are going to Switzerland. Lots of Swiss cars. A guy approached me in the bathroom after seeing my sign. He took me straight to my destination (Zürich). I didn't even have to wait. Strongly recommend this spot for Southbound travel.

rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min, ride: 119 km ↘

―maxx, August 2025

41.34493, -5.17631

I tried asking around at the gas station but all the cars were full or we're going towards Salamanca. There are a lot of truck drivers and foreigners (France, UK, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland...) at the gas station, but many are families. After I decided moving to the entrance of the highway, a Spanish guy exited from the highway, and promised me to take me to Valladolid (my sign). Turns out he was going further and I ended up in Burgos.

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 205 km ↗

―Raphi, Sat 02 Aug 2025, 17:00

47.83047, 7.56256

Okay spot if you wanna get to switzerland bad spot if you wanna get to france, here people only go to swiss

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 115 km ↓

―Anonymous, July 2025

47.57351, 7.56696

great alternative to hitching from the border. we were a while standing on the on slip directly, but eventually we moved onto the road a little bit and one of the first french cars to pass stopped for us. theres good visibility and cars are already slowing down about to turn. at mid day on a weekday there was a decent amount of traffic, a lot of people in mulhouse commute to switzerland for work so you could catch a lot of french drivers going home after work around 5 or 6 potentially.

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 33 km ↖

―BI, Thu 24 Jul 2025, 11:23

47.48884, 9.70293

loads of traffic for switzerland, a lot of people cross the border for work so getting here early you catch commuter traffic to st gallen etc. also a few swiss cars driving by with sg plates, bathroom at the petrol station right behind to refill water and bins filled with cardboard for all your sign making needs :-)

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 30 km ←

―BI, Wed 23 Jul 2025, 09:42

48.04993, 7.81068

Yeap.... this one is terrible for france, for Switzerland is really good, I changed my plans to go to Lyon through Switzerland after waiting too long

rating: 3/5, wait: 150 min 💬+🪧, ride: 236 km ↙

―Persas531, July 2025

47.52204, 12.38084

I decided to hitchhike from this place beacuse I couldn't find better one. I think that this place is not so good but I was lucky. Some guy stopped there, I asked him if he is going Innsbruck direction and he took me all the way to Switzerland.

rating: 3/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 282 km ←

―Anonymous, July 2025

46.44628, 6.29785

To go to geneve super easy. I wanted to skip it because i was going to france and find a ride. There are some trucks, with time you may find a long way. More smiling people than in usuall switzerland roads. Nice place.

rating: 4/5, wait: 45 min

―Anonymous, July 2025

45.78898, 4.90718

It’s a good spot, many cars going direction Paris but we wanted to get to Switzerland and we managed to get to a gas station just outside of Lyon

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 18 km ↗

―Fiorekonlife, July 2025

47.57484, 7.5634

Lots of traffic, not enough space to pull over, a lady coming from France, working in Switzerland gave me a lift. I think she was going through that spot due to some construction work on th highway

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 42 km ↘

―Anonymous, Wed 09 Apr 2025, 14:29

44.86854, -0.50197

This spot is actually really good if you want to get to Lyon, or even Switzerland because there is a lot of traffic and they have a good place to stop next to the road, but I think it’s better to have a sign there. We 2 people got a ride next to Lyon with a guy that even bought us ice cream!

rating: 5/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 405 km →

―Fiorekonlife, July 2025

47.16636, 10.58932

This is an ideal spot if you want to go South into Switzerland or Italy. We had our sign out for Mals in Northern Italy and almost instantly got a ride from this older fellow. He took us right to the Italian border but wouldn’t cross it because he always gets pulled over for drunk driving he said. This spot is near a shopping centre, and a round-a-bout so cars slow down. There is a bus stop where cars can pull over safely. I think it would be a good spot as well going the other direction to get on to the highway

rating: 5/5, wait: 2 min, ride: 44 km ↓

―scotty1, July 2025

47.54523, 9.73854

Most of the cars were heading towards Austria or Switzerland. But luckily a local German grandma with her two grandchildren took me to next rest area on the highway, meanwhile explaining to the kids that she also used to do that and explained what trampen means to them etc. :’)

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 19 km ↑

―anettlee17, Thu 24 Apr 2025, 17:30

47.3735, 9.67724

Got a ride to the Austrian-German border, most of the cars were heading towards Switzerland though.

rating: 5/5, wait: 7 min 💬, ride: 24 km ↑

―anettlee17, Fri 25 Apr 2025, 16:00