Switzerland Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Switzerland Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Switzerland. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.

Switzerland - Address Format

An address format in Switzerland contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postal Code (4 digits) and City Name
Country – SWITZERLAND (in all caps)

John Smith
Kronenstrasse 37-33
8006 Zurich
SWITZERLAND

Switzerland Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Av. de Montoie 9
1007 Lausanne
SWITZERLAND

Example 2:

Switzerland Post Office
Schifflaube 4
3011 Bern
SWITZERLAND

Postal and Country Information for Switzerland

Country/territory name	Switzerland
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: CH ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: CHE ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 756
Administrative area count	26
Administration area names and abbreviations	Aargau Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden Basel-City Basel-Country Bern Fribourg Geneva Glarus Grisons Jura Lucerne Neuchatel Nidwalden Obwalden Saint Gallen Schaffhausen Schwyz Solothurn Thurgau Ticino Uri Valais Vaud Zug Zurich	AG AR AI BS BL BE FR GE GL GR JU LU NE NW OW SG SH SZ SO TG TI UR VS VD ZG ZH
Term to describe postal codes	NPA
Postal code format	9999
Population	8 858 026
Total land area	41 292km²

How to Validate Addresses for Switzerland Using GeoPostcodes Database

GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate Switzerland addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for Switzerland, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.

Use GeoPostcodes:

Address Database to validate Street Names, Postal Codes and Cities in Switzerland
Postal Database if you only need to validate Postal Codes and Cities in Switzerland
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Switzerland segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Switzerland using:

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Locality column to validate City names

Explore our Switzerland address database.

Our location dataset for Switzerland

Switzerland ZIP Codes

Switzerland uses an “NPA” system, which is a four-digit numeric format, like 9999, with no letters or separators. This is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Switzerland’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Switzerland has 3,333 postal codes covering 2,287 regions and 5,394 towns.

Switzerland ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Switzerland administrative landscape often follows inconsistent regional models and irregular public sources, making it difficult to maintain reliable boundaries. Our standardized postal and administrative boundary data resolves these gaps to ensure complete, coherent geographic coverage.

Switzerland Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Switzerland’s address structure, ensuring consistent, accurate, and globally aligned formatting across your systems. The dataset captures the official address elements required by the national postal operator and maps them into our unified global schema.