This is a list of mountains of Switzerland above 3,000 metres (9,843 ft). This height, in the Alps, approximately corresponds to the level of the climatic snow line. Note that this list includes many secondary summits that are not always considered independent mountains (in the strict sense of the term) but that are mainly of climbing interest. For a list of major summits only, without elevation cut-off, see List of mountains of Switzerland.
This list only includes significant summits with a topographic prominence of at least 150 metres (492 ft). There are 437 such summits exceeding 3,000 m in Switzerland. They are found in the cantons of Valais, Bern, Graubünden, Uri, Glarus, Ticino, St. Gallen, Obwalden and Vaud.[1] All mountain heights and prominences on the list are from the largest-scale maps available.[2]
| Canton | 3000- 3249m |
3250- 3499m |
3500- 3749m |
3750- 3999m |
4000- 4249m |
4250- 4499m |
4500m+ | Total (3000m+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bern | 18 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 54 |
| Glarus | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Graubünden | 165 | 37 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 211 |
| Obwalden | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| St. Gallen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ticino | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Uri | 22 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| Valais | 56 | 27 | 37 | 30 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 177 |
| Vaud | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Switzerland | 246 | 79 | 48 | 35 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 437 |
- ^ Christian Thöni, Directory of the mountains of Switzerland
- ^ All mountain heights and prominences are from the 1:25,000 Swisstopo topographic maps.