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Uri: 16 destinations per 1,000 residents. Zurich: 1. Measured against the people who live there, Uri is far ahead, ahead of Grisons (13); Zurich ranks 23 of 26.

The places come from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, the residents from the official population statistics (FSO). These sources do not cover every canton equally densely, so this is a finding about the directory, not about all of Switzerland. The radar lists 18'694 destinations in 26 cantons, plus 5 near the border on Lake Constance.

Strandbad Mythenquai, Technorama and Zoo Zürich have the highest Ausflugs-Index, 98 points, and each still carries a weakness. That holds for all 166 reviewed destinations. For the Technorama, the weakness is the admission price: adults CHF 34, children aged 6–15 CHF 21 (technorama.ch, checked 3 November 2026).

In total, 438 strengths stand against 368 explicitly named weaknesses. A tourism site says "family-friendly" and "perfect in any weather" because it belongs to the destination or lives off it. Here the same entry also tells you when it is packed and what it costs.

For public places the verdict is direct. For named private businesses, critical points stay explicitly opinion based on experience, never a statement of fact. That is what allows us to stay critical.

The "Avoid" level exists, and we have never awarded it. It is strict, and it is empty because no visited destination has earned it.

The ConvivaPlus Ausflugs-Index is a number from 1 to 100 that works without a profile: how strong is this destination in general? It runs from 57 to 98, with a median of 84. It is deterministic: the same data always give the same number, which you can recalculate on the methodology page.

The five verdict levels break down like this: 18× Top, 67× Strong, 49× Solid, 32× Situational.

Seeburgpark (Kreuzlingen) charges no admission and scores 97 points in the Ausflugs-Index, as many as Knie's Kinderzoo (Rapperswil), where adults pay CHF 23 and children from age 4 pay CHF 9 (price checked on 4 November 2026). On average it does not hold: free destinations sit at 76 points, those with an admission fee at 85.

109 of 166 reviewed destinations are free or cheap, the majority: 54 charge no admission, 55 fall into the cheap band. Free, for example: Tierpark Lange Erlen (Basel) (85 points) and Wildpark Peter und Paul (St. Gallen) (85).

In the radar, "Budget: free" is a filter, not a promise: it only shows what is tagged free and leaves out everything else. If you would rather read than filter, the long version is in our guide Trips under 20 francs.

Technorama and Swiss Museum of Transport (Lucerne): the rainy day is the busiest time there, according to our verdict. That is an editorial assessment with a check date, not a visitor count. Escape there when it rains and you will rarely be alone.

Papiliorama (Kerzers), Swiss Museum of Transport (Lucerne) and Kindermuseum Baden: the strongest destinations for a rainy day, in 3 cantons. 4 of the 59 rain-proof destinations are even fully outdoors, among them Waldlabor Zürich and Marzilibahn.

What "rain-proof" does not mean here: "has a roof". The tag is about the experience, not the building; an indoor pool in the rain is just an indoor pool. Dated events on the same day are in the seasonal overview, the radar keeps the permanent destinations.

Even up the mountain, a wheelchair can go. Eiger Express and Mürrenbahn: accessible according to the operator. Giessbachbahn: not wheelchair accessible according to the operator.

For 17 destinations it says plainly: not with a wheelchair. That saves the trip to the foot of a staircase. 29 reviewed destinations are confirmed wheelchair accessible, 24 partly.

Set the "Wheelchair" filter and the radar shows only the confirmed destinations. Where the data comes from and what is still open: see "How we rate".

A mountain railway works with a baby too. We rate 12 funiculars and cable cars as suitable from birth, for example Gurten and Giessbachbahn.

Enter your child's age in the radar: destinations rated as suitable for that age move to the top. From birth that is 65 of the 166 reviewed destinations, from age 3 it is 112, with pram, nap and a window that closes at 3 pm. Only 4 require age 13 or older.

The age band is its own filter in the radar, not a label. "Family-friendly" means one thing for a baby and another for a ten-year-old, and that very lumping-together makes most outing lists useless for parents.

69 reviewed destinations say no to dogs, 53 say yes. What is not confirmed is not claimed.

Dog, public transport and rain at once: 4 of the 166 reviewed destinations, all in the canton of Bern: open today: Botanical Garden of Bern, Marzilibahn and Mürrenbahn. That is the question the radar's filter is built for.

It is the sunny day that fills up, not the wet one. 24 reviewed destinations name sunshine, heat or fine weather as the busiest time, only 7 name rain.

"Fine Sundays get busy up top": that is what our verdict on Uetliberg (Bahn + Aussichtsturm) says (checked 21 June 2026). 82 of the 166 reviewed destinations carry a note like this.

Sentences like "weekdays from opening, much quieter than weekend afternoons" decide an outing more than the admission price. No business advertises that it is packed on Sunday afternoons.

The radar lists 18'694 destinations in 26 cantons, plus 5 near the border on Lake Constance. 166 of them (1 %) have been visited and rated by our editors, 106 of those in the canton of Zurich. The other 18'528 are listed with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata; they carry the note "not yet reviewed" and never count as a match.

The ConvivaPlus Eignungs-Radar matches your profile against each place's tagged properties: age band, indoor/outdoor, weather, accessibility, duration, budget, season, interest and public transport. The full formula is on the methodology page.

Three limits we don't hide: first, of the 18'694 destinations in the directory, 166 carry an editorial verdict with an Ausflugs-Index; the rest is a directory, not a judgement. Second, wheelchair data comes from a solid source only for the city of Zurich (Ginto / Pro Infirmis), plus a few mountain railways from the operator's own statement; for 96 reviewed destinations the question is therefore still open, and we only show what is confirmed. Third, a verdict is a dated editorial opinion, not a measurement. Through the feedback form any business and any visitor can challenge a verdict. More tools of the same kind are in the tool directory.