- Type
- Mountain railway
- Town / canton
- Zermatt, Valais / Wallis
- Visitors
- 700 000 · 2024 · estimate — verify before use
- Upper-tier houses in Zermatt
- Mont Cervin Palace, Grand Hotel Zermatterhof, Riffelalp Resort 2222m
- Position in the ranking
- 8 of 36 sites on file · above it stands Pilatus with 750 000; below it Verkehrshaus der Schweiz with 600 000
In Valais / Wallis
A confirmed 4,532,842 overnights in 2025, +2.2% — the fourth volume in the country. Zermatt, Crans-Montana, Verbier and Saas-Fee give the highest non-urban concentration of upper-tier stock in Switzerland. 52.4% of nights were domestic, and that share fell: the market is carried by inbound.
- Seasonality
- Two peaks: Dec–Mar and Jul–Aug
- Overnight stays, 2025
- 4 532 842 · confirmed
- Access
- The Rhône valley is a single axis and everything else branches upward from it. Zermatt is car-free: the car stays in Täsch and only the train continues. Saas-Fee is the same. For transfers that means a baggage transhipment, and it has to be built into the plan in advance.
- Airports in the canton
- Sion (SIR)
- From Bern by rail
- 2 h 15, car-free village
- Not counted in this canton
- Matterhorn — a mountain; only the cableways are counted, each in its own way, Aletschgletscher — a UNESCO site; the cableways are counted, not the glacier
- Destinations nearby
- Zermatt, Matterhorn, Gornergrat, Crans-Montana, Verbier, Saas-Fee, Leukerbad, Sion, Sierre, Val d'Anniviers, Martigny
- Events in the canton
- Sion sous les Étoiles (Apr), Sion Festival (Jun), Verbier Festival (Aug)
- Other sites on file
- Gornergrat Bahn (800 000), Aletsch Arena (400 000)
- Starred tables in the canton
- Gilles Varone ★★
- Upper-tier stock
- 31 properties, 2 in the MICHELIN Key selection, 1 562 rooms recorded
Estimate from secondary sources; treat as an order of magnitude and confirm with the operator before quoting it. Switzerland keeps no national attendance register, so every figure of this kind is closed site by site. Verified 28 August 2026.