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Transport for Switzerland

Swiss train connections and schedules, no key needed

🚆 TransportHEALTHYchecked 11h ago
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A friendly wrapper over Swiss public-transport timetables that returns connections, departures, and station lookups as JSON. Ask for a route between two towns and get platforms, times, and live delay data back. Keyless and CORS-enabled; throughput is bounded by the underlying timetable.search.ch limits.

62HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 62 · healthy
Uptime history
96.1%90 days
95.0%30 days
916P50 · ms
4887P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 338 ms, slowest 4134 ms, most recent 581 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://transport.opendata.ch/v1/connections?from=Zurich&to=Bern&limit=1

{
  "connections": [
    {
      "from": {
        "station": {
          "id": "8503000",
          "name": "Zürich HB"
        },
        "departure": "2026-07-05T12:32:00+0200",
        "platform": "32"
      },
      "to": {
        "station": {
          "name": "Bern"
        },
        "arrival": "2026-07-05T13:28:00+0200"
      },
      "duration": "00d00:56:00"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://transport.opendata.ch/v1/connections?from=Zurich&to=Bern&limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://transport.opendata.ch/v1/connections?from=Zurich&to=Bern&limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://transport.opendata.ch/v1/connections?from=Zurich&to=Bern&limit=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /connections?from=Zurich&to=Bern&limit=1916 mschecked 11h ago
GET/connections?from=Zurich&to=Bern&limit=1PROBED

Swiss train connections and schedules, no key needed

GET/connections?limit=5

Connections — documented GET route.

GET/connections?page=1

Connections — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Transport for Switzerland: common questions

Is Transport for Switzerland free to use?

Yes — Transport for Switzerland is a free transport API. Free tier: Free — no key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Transport for Switzerland need an API key?

No — Transport for Switzerland needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Bounded by timetable.search.ch limits (no fixed number published)).

Can I call Transport for Switzerland from the browser?

Yes — Transport for Switzerland returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Transport for Switzerland up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Transport for Switzerland is healthy with 96.1% uptime over 90 days and a 916 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.