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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Switzerland, in One Sentence It was a July morning above Grindelwald, and the cog railway had just spat us out into a meadow so green it looked retouched. Cowbells clanked somewhere below, the Eiger’s north face loomed grey and enormous across the valley, and we ate bread and Gruyère on a bench while paragliders drifted past at eye level. Idyllic — and, I’ll admit, eye-wateringly expensive once the lift tickets and the hotel were tallied. That bill taught me something about timing Switzerland that I’ll come back to, because the season you choose changes everything here. ...