2024 in Switzerland

Events in the year 2024 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * President of the Swiss Confederation: Viola Amherd
 * President of the National Council: Eric Nussbaumer
 * President of the Swiss Council of States: Eva Herzog

February

 * 20 February – In ice hockey, Genève-Servette HC of the Swiss National League wins their first Champions Hockey League title, defeating Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Hockey League 3–2 in the final.

March

 * 3 March – 2024 Swiss referendums: Voters accept the initiative to increase monthly pensions, but reject raising the retirement age.
 * 11 March – Five skiers are found dead after they went missing two days ago en route from Zermatt to the village of Arolla. A sixth person is still missing.
 * 30 March–7 April – The 2024 World Men's Curling Championship at Schaffhausen.

April

 * 9 April – The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Swiss government's efforts to tackle climate change are insufficient and violate fundamental human rights, in its first such verdict against a state on the issue, following a lawsuit filed by about 2,500 members of the group Senior Women for Climate Protection.
 * 17 April – The Federal Assembly votes to ban public displays of the Nazi swastika.

May

 * 11 May – Swiss singer Nemo wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmo, Sweden with his song The Code.
 * 15 May – In a suspected terrorist attack, a man stabs six people in Zofingen.

June

 * 9 June – 2024 Swiss referendums: Voters reject limits on healthcare spending and an initiative against compulsory vaccination, while approving the initiative of a new law on electricity.
 * 13 June – Two people are killed and 11 others are injured following a series of explosions inside an underground parking garage at an apartment building in Obersiggenthal.
 * 15-16 June – June 2024 Ukraine peace summit: World leaders meet at the Bürgenstock Resort to advance the Ukrainian peace process.
 * 21 June – A court in Geneva sentences billionaire Prakash Hinduja and three of his family members to four years in prison for exploiting domestic workers at their villa in Cologny.
 * 22 June – One person is killed and two others are reported missing after a rockslide hits the town of Lostallo in Graubünden.
 * 25 June – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elects former Swiss president Alain Berset as the Council's new Secretary General, succeeding Marija Pejčinović Burić.
 * 30 June – Four people are killed and two are missing after landslides and torrential floods in Ticino and Valais.

July

 * 11 July – Five people are injured in a machete attack inside an apartment in Saint Gallen. The suspect is arrested.
 * 12 July – Three people are killed and eight others are injured after scaffolding falls off an under construction building in Lausanne.

Scheduled

 * 28 November–15 December – The 2024 European Women's Handball Championship at Basel.

Art and entertainment

 * List of Swiss submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Holidays
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 * 1 January - New Year's Day
 * 2 January - Berchtoldstag Day
 * 6 January - Epiphany
 * 1 March - Republic Day
 * 19 March - Saint Joseph's Day
 * 29 March - Good Friday
 * 1 April - Easter Monday
 * 4 April - Näfels Ride
 * 1 May - International Workers' Day
 * 9 May - Ascension Day
 * 20 May - Whit Monday
 * 30 May - Corpus Christi
 * 29 June - Saints Peter and Paul
 * 1 August - Swiss National Day
 * 15 August - Assumption Day
 * 5 September - Jeûne genevois
 * 15 September - Lundi du Jeûne
 * 25 September - Saint Nicholas of Flüe Day
 * 1 November - All Saints' Day
 * 8 December – Immaculate Conception
 * 25 December - Christmas Day
 * 26 December – Saint Stephen's Day
 * 31 December – Restoration Day

Deaths

 * 1 January – Niklaus Wirth, 89, computer scientist (Pascal).
 * 6 January – Kurt W. Forster, 88, architecture historian and teacher.
 * 14 January – Christophe Boesch, 72, French-Swiss primatologist.
 * 20 January – Jacques Guhl, 101, writer, poet, and footballer (Lausanne-Sport, Sion).
 * 29 May – Claude Torracinta, 89, Swiss journalist.