Switzerland airport parking

Switzerland has no short-stay vignette: any car on a Swiss motorway needs the full one, as does any trailer it tows, even for a single motorway trip to the airport. Buy it before you enter the country. Coming from abroad, you need it from the border onwards, except at the Basel/St Louis, Rheinfelden and Kreuzlingen motorway crossings, where you may drive without one as long as you leave at the first exit.

The e-vignette is bought online at e-vignette.ch, the federal customs office’s own shop, and registered to your number plate; the sticker version goes on the inside of the windscreen and is sold at Swiss post offices, most petrol stations and garages, and, in exceptional cases, at some border customs offices. The customs office advises buying only through official channels, since fake websites sell e-vignettes. For a hire car, the office’s online checker can show whether a valid e-vignette is already on record for its number plate before you buy one.