Driving guide · digital download · Edition 2027
Switzerland Driving Guide
44 driving roads · Switzerland. One page each, with the route, the toll, the season and where to stop.
- Roads
- 44
- Total length
- 1,021 km
- GPX
- 44
- Toll roads
- 1
- The PDF, the Start Here page for your phone (works offline, sorts the roads by distance) and 44 GPX tracks
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- Refund within 30 days, no reason needed
- The guide is in English
- Edition 2027: the rechecked edition is emailed to you free by 1 May 2027
Written and published by Tom Sonecki, a sole trader (Einzelunternehmen) in Hamburg. Payment by Stripe, which is the merchant of record.
Why this guide
One road in this guide charges a toll. Every other one stops you with a date, an hour or a tape measure.
44 driving roads across Switzerland, with the crossings into Italy, France, Austria and Germany that a Swiss week ends up on, one page each: what the road is like to drive, when the canton opens the gate, what you may not take up it, up to four places worth stopping for, and a button that opens the whole route in Google Maps. 1,021 km of road, every line drawn from OpenStreetMap and measured at both ends against the places its page names.
The gate is a date, and it moves
The Furka and the Grimsel opened on 29 May 2026 and the Susten on 12 June. The Albula runs to 8 December and the Flüela to 6 January. Every page prints the 2026 dates where a canton or an operator published them, and says so where nobody did.
And sometimes it is a tape measure or a day of the week
No trailers over the Furka. Nothing wider than 2.30 m over the Albula. No cars at all on the Pragel at weekends, or on the Weissenstein between nine and four on a Sunday. No cars past Schwarzwaldalp, ever. Each page says which.
A line measured against the towns it names
Every one of the 44 lines was drawn from the OpenStreetMap extracts and its two ends measured against the places printed under its map. Not every line reaches both: on some, the line stops short of a town its page prints, and the start coordinate on the page is where the line begins.
Page 2 of the guide
Check it is your region before you pay.
Straight-line distance from each city to the nearest point of each road. The free sample carries this whole map.
| City | Roads within 150 km | Nearest |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 41 | 21 km |
| Zurich | 39 | 41 km |
| Lugano | 38 | 14 km |
| Bern | 37 | 16 km |
| Sion | 34 | 1 km |
| Basel | 30 | 34 km |
| Stuttgart | 1 | 132 km |
| Munich | 0 | 157 km |
Not your region? The shelf sorts all seven guides by the roads near your town.
The contents
Every road in the guide.
free in the sample
| No. | Road | Region | Toll or gate | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Sanetsch Pass Road | Valais | Dead end | Shut in winter |
| 02 | Albula Pass | Graubünden | 2.30 m limit | Shut in winter |
| 03 | Alpe di Neggia Road | Ticino | Narrow | Open all year |
| 04 | Furka Pass free | Uri / Valais | Trailer ban | Shut in winter |
| 05 | Susten Pass free | Bern / Uri | Free | Shut in winter |
| 06 | Klausen Pass | Uri / Glarus | 2.30 m limit | Shut in winter |
| 07 | Pragel Pass free | Schwyz / Glarus | Shut Sat-Sun | Shut in winter |
| 08 | Weissenstein Crossing | Solothurn | Sunday ban | Shut in winter |
| 09 | Moosalp Crossing | Valais | Narrow | Shut in winter |
| 10 | Arosa Road | Graubünden | Narrow | Open all year |
| 11 | Grimsel Pass | Bern / Valais | Free | Shut in winter |
| 12 | Grosse Scheidegg Road free | Bern | Car ban | Shut in winter |
| 13 | Val d'Anniviers to Grimentz | Valais | Dam road | Open all year |
| 14 | Col de la Forclaz and the Montets | Valais / Haute-Savoie | Border | Open all year |
| 15 | Flüela Pass | Graubünden | HGV trailers | Shut in winter |
| 16 | Viamala Road | Graubünden | Free | Open all year |
| 17 | Chasseral Ridge Road | Bern | Winter gate | Shut in winter |
| 18 | Melchsee-Frutt Road | Obwalden | One-way | Shut in winter |
| 19 | Col de la Croix | Vaud | Winter gate | Shut in winter |
| 20 | Samnaun Tunnels Road | Graubünden / Tyrol | Customs | Open all year |
| 21 | Val d'Hérens to Arolla | Valais | Narrow | Open all year |
| 22 | Val Verzasca | Ticino | Parking card | Open all year |
| 23 | Jaun Pass | Fribourg / Bern | Free | Open all year |
| 24 | Leukerbad Gorge Road | Valais | Free | Open all year |
| 25 | Centovalli Road | Ticino / Piedmont | Border | Open all year |
| 26 | Glaubenberg Road | Obwalden / Lucerne | Free | Shut in winter |
| 27 | Schwägalp Pass | Appenzell Ausserrhoden / St. Gallen | Free | Open all year |
| 28 | Saas Valley Road | Valais | Park below | Open all year |
| 29 | Val Bavona | Ticino | Storm risk | Open all year |
| 30 | Glaubenbielen Panorama Road | Obwalden / Lucerne | Coach hours | Shut in winter |
| 31 | Gurnigel Ridge Road | Bern | Free | Open all year |
| 32 | Valsertal Road | Graubünden | Free | Open all year |
| 33 | Lukmanier Pass | Graubünden / Ticino | Winter road | Open all year |
| 34 | Col du Marchairuz | Vaud | Free | Open all year |
| 35 | Ibergeregg | Schwyz | 2.50 m limit | Open all year |
| 36 | Simplon Pass | Valais / Piedmont | Winter road | Open all year |
| 37 | Oberalp Pass | Uri / Graubünden | Car train | Shut in winter |
| 38 | Col du Pillon | Vaud / Bern | Free | Open all year |
| 39 | Ofen Pass | Graubünden | National park | Open all year |
| 40 | Munt la Schera Tunnel Road free | Graubünden / Lombardy | Toll tunnel | Open all year |
| 41 | Col des Mosses | Vaud | Free | Open all year |
| 42 | Julier Pass | Graubünden | Winter road | Open all year |
| 43 | Col de la Faucille | Ain | Free | Open all year |
| 44 | Schauinsland Road | Baden-Württemberg | Bike ban | Open all year |
Questions
Anything else: info@outforadrive.com
What does Edition 2027 mean?
You download the current guide the moment you pay, with every toll, gate hour and opening date as read for the 2026 season. Each is then checked again for 2027, and the rechecked edition is emailed to you free by 1 May 2027. The roads, routes and GPX tracks do not expire. Every guide, in the 2027 Edition (all seven guides in one checkout) or bought on its own, gets its rechecked edition this way.
What if a road is shut when I go?
Every page prints the road's season. Where the season has dates, the Start Here page on your phone checks today's date and says whether the road is open now, shut for winter, or which month it opens.
Does it work with my navigation app?
The GPX tracks load into komoot, Kurviger, Calimoto, OsmAnd and Garmin. If your car's own navigation cannot import a GPX file, tap Drive the route on the page: the whole road opens in Google Maps on your phone, and from there on CarPlay or Android Auto. Apple Maps and Waze get the start of the road.
Is it for motorcycles too?
Yes. The roads are the same on two wheels, and where an operator bars motorcycles, the road's own paragraph says so. The one toll road prints no motorcycle toll, so check the operator's page.
Is this a printed book?
No. It is a download: an A4 PDF with one page per road, a Start Here page for your phone that works with no signal, and a folder of GPX tracks. Print the PDF on a home printer if you want paper.
Can I give it as a present?
Yes. Buy it as usual, then write to info@outforadrive.com with the name and email address of the person it is for. A download link of their own is emailed to them, the licence passes to them, and the rechecked 2027 edition goes to their address too. Fresh links from the re-download page still go to the address you paid with.
What if it is not for me?
Ask for a refund within 30 days. One line is enough, and no reason is needed.
The 2027 Edition
This guide and six more for €79.00.
All seven cost €188.93 bought one by one. The 2027 Edition is one checkout for all of them and for every guide published while the 2027 Edition is on sale.
Every guide, in the Edition or bought on its own, gets its rechecked 2027 edition free by email.
