Country Dialing Guide

Switzerland country code +41 — call Switzerland & get a number.

A country that runs on punctuality runs its phone lines the same way. Here's the precise +41 playbook — exact formats from the US, UK and the EU, every canton's area code, current mobile prefixes, and live time & weather — plus how businesses claim a Swiss virtual number with MCM.

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+41

Country code

Exit code

8.9 m

People

8.9 m

Population

~12 million mobile connections

Active SIMs

Mobile operators

+41

Country code

01At a glance

Switzerland at a glance

The numbers and facts you need before you dial.

Country name

Swiss Confederation

Country code

+41

ISO codes

CH / CHE

Exit code (from Switzerland)

Trunk prefix (within)

Capital

Bern (de facto / federal city)

Largest city

Zurich

Population

~8.9 million

Currency

Swiss Franc (CHF, Fr.)

Time zone

Central European Time (CET), UTC+1; CEST (UTC+2) in summer — DST observed

Regulator

Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM / BAKOM)

Active SIMs

~12 million mobile connections

02The basics

What is the country code for Switzerland?

Whether your contact answers in German, French, Italian or Romansh, the route to them is identical: +41. Dial it after your own exit code and you reach any landline or mobile in the Confederation. (Liechtenstein once shared this plan; it has since moved to its own +423.)

Code +41 was assigned to Switzerland by the ITU under the E.164 plan. The “+” means “dial your local international exit code”; on a mobile, press and hold 0 to type it.

+410041011 4100 41

All four mean the same thing — they connect your call to Switzerland.

03Dialing format

How to call Switzerland from anywhere

Three moving parts, assembled in order like a good Swiss mechanism: your exit code, then 41, then the area or mobile code with its leading 0 removed, then the subscriber number.

COUNTRY

+41

AREA

44(43)

SUBSCRIBER

XXX XXXX

Full example: +41 44(43) XXX XXXX — drop the local leading 0 when calling from abroad.

United States & Canada

exit 011

011 + 41 + area code + number

011 41 44(43) XXXXXXX

United Kingdom

exit 00

00 + 41 + area code + number

00 41 44(43) XXXXXXX

Europe

exit 00

00 + 41 + area code + number

00 41 44(43) XXXXXXX

Australia

exit 0011

0011 + 41 + area code + number

0011 41 44(43) XXXXXXX

04Number format

Switzerland phone number format explained

Swiss numbering is reassuringly uniform: a closed plan where every number runs to exactly 10 digits, area code included, grouped as 0xx xxx xx xx. There are no shortcuts — even a call across the same street carries the full NDC.

Landline

Mobile

05Area codes

Switzerland area codes — major cities

Drop the local leading 0 when calling from abroad.

// Full directory12 entries

City	Region	Area code
Zurich	Zurich	44(43)
Geneva	Geneva	22
Bern	Bern	31
Basel	Basel	61
Lausanne	Vaud	21
Lucerne	Central Switzerland	41
St. Gallen	Eastern Switzerland	71
Winterthur	Zurich	52
Fribourg	Fribourg	26
Lugano	Ticino	91
Chur	Graubünden	81
Neuchâtel	Neuchâtel	32

06Mobile networks

Switzerland mobile network prefixes

The prefix after +41 tells you which network issued the SIM — though number portability means it no longer guarantees the operator.

Swisscom

prefixes 79 and 75. The largest operator.

Sunrise

prefix 76 (with MVNOs such as Yallo, Lebara, Aldi).

Salt Mobile

prefix 78 (formerly Orange).

Various MVNOs

prefix 77 (e.g., M-Budget 774, Wingo 775, Lycamobile 779).

07Time zone

Switzerland time zone

Swiss offices keep famously exact hours, and the clock behind them is Central European Time (CET), UTC+1 — shifting to Central European Summer Time (CEST), UTC+2, from late March to late October.

Zurich