Swiss Living Index

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swiss-living-index": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}

62 tools

• list_metrics

  List available metrics for the 26 Swiss cantons (key, label, unit, source, what higher/lower means).

• rent_index

  Rent index per Swiss canton: BFS average rent of occupied rented flats (structural survey, existing rents, not asking rents) by canton and number of rooms with the 95% confidence interval, 2010 onwards, plus a size-standardised rent (DERIVED by Swiss Living Index: each canton…

• ahv_pension

  Swiss AHV/AVS old-age pension (1st pillar): the 13th AHV pension (first paid December 2026, one twelfth of the year's old-age pensions, automatic, old-age pensions only, not counted for supplementary benefits), minimum and maximum pension and couples cap for 2026 and 2027…

• school_holidays

  School holidays of the compulsory schools (Volksschule) in the 26 Swiss cantons for the current and next school year, read from each canton's own sources (not the EDK list): autumn, Christmas, sports/carnival, spring/Easter as first and last weekday off, summer start, who sets…

• tax_deadlines

  Tax return filing rules for natural persons in the 26 Swiss cantons, read from each cantonal tax administration: ordinary filing deadline (or that the date printed on the return applies), deadline for the self-employed, free extension until, latest extension, extension fee, the…

• pollen

  Pollen in Switzerland from the MeteoSwiss pollen network (open data, CC BY 4.0; credit «Source: MeteoSwiss»): daily mean concentration (grains per m³, 6 to 6 UTC) of hazel, alder, birch, ash, beech, oak and grasses at the 15 stations for the last 14 days, and a pollen calendar…

• federal_votes

  Results of every Swiss federal vote since 1981 (FSO open data; official titles in DE FR IT RM EN): without arguments the list of vote days with every proposal and its national result (yes %, turnout, cantons for and against, accepted); with date (YYYY-MM-DD) that day with the…

• sunday_shopping

  Sunday shopping and shop opening hours in the 26 Swiss cantons from the official law texts (re-checked weekly): how many Sundays all shops may open per year (federal Labour Act: at most four without a permit, each canton decides), who decides (canton or commune), weekday and…

• mortgage_rates

  Swiss National Bank policy rate (current, since when, every change since June 2019), SARON, and the average interest rates Swiss banks publish for new mortgages at month end (SNB data portal): variable, fixed 2 / 5 / 10 years, SARON 3 years, with 0.25 quantile, median and 0.75…

• dog_tax

  Yearly dog tax per Swiss commune from official sources where a canton has a uniform rate or publishes every commune: Vaud (cantonal CHF 100 plus each commune's tax), Lucerne and Aargau (CHF 120 everywhere), Basel-Stadt (CHF 160 / 150 / 120, each further dog double)…

• waste_fees

  Waste fees of Swiss communes from official open data, where the canton publishes every commune: canton of Zurich (all communes, since 2000: yearly basic fee converted to a 4-room flat and price per 35-litre bag) and Basel-Landschaft (bag price, basic fee per household, dog tax)…

• how_many

  Official answers to «How many … are there in Switzerland?» (the questions that reach Google Switzerland's top 10 every year): cantons, communes and districts (BFS commune register, per canton), permanent residents and foreign nationals (BFS STATPOP), Swiss abroad, cows, dairy…

• imputed_rental_value

  Abolition of the imputed rental value (Eigenmietwert, valeur locative) on owner-occupied homes in Switzerland: in force 1 January 2029 (Federal Council decision of 1 April 2026); timeline from the 2017 parliamentary initiative to entry into force, the changes for owners as the…

• fire_danger

  Forest fire danger and fire bans in Switzerland from FOEN open data (waldbrandgefahr.ch; credit «Source: FOEN»): for each of the 143 warning regions the danger level 1–5 and the canton's prevention measure 1–5 (no measures, warning, conditional ban, ban in and near the forest…

• water_temperature

  Water temperature in Switzerland: every FOEN river station measuring water temperature (raw data, latest reading, and where FOEN publishes it usual_c = median for this calendar day over the station's measuring years with usual_p25_c/usual_p75_c; credit «Surface waters data…

• births_deaths

  Births and deaths in Switzerland or one canton (geo = CH or a 2-letter canton code): yearly births and deaths since 1969, the last 36 months, deaths per week for the last 104 weeks with the BFS expected value and 99% band (mortality monitoring; latest weeks provisional), the…

• get_switzerland

  The country level of the hierarchy Switzerland → 26 cantons → communes: population and foreign share (BFS STATPOP), naturalisations per year 2011 onwards with ordinary vs facilitated and the most common former nationalities (official BFS country names in DE FR IT EN), every…

• get_canton

  Get all metric values for one canton. canton = 2-letter abbreviation (e.g. ZH, GE, TI). rank 1 = lowest value for cost metrics (dir 'low', e.g. taxes/rent) and highest value for capacity/benefit metrics (dir 'high', e.g. sunshine/jobs). Ranks describe order under the stated…

• rank_by_metric

  Rank all cantons by a metric. metric = a key from list_metrics; order = "high" or "low" (default high).

• compare_cantons

  Compare 2–4 cantons across all metrics. cantons = array of abbreviations.

• commune_tax

  Live income+wealth tax for a specific commune & household (official ESTV, year 2026). commune = name or postcode; income in CHF; married bool; children count; wealth in CHF.

• search_commune

  Find Swiss communes by name or postcode (official ESTV location register). Returns commune name, canton and postcode — use before commune_tax or estimate_net_move when the spelling is uncertain.

• estimate_net_move

  Estimate the net yearly CHF impact of moving between two Swiss communes for a household: live commune-level tax (official ESTV 2026) plus canton-average rent and health-premium differences. Positive savings = the move saves money. The flagship relocation calculation as a tool.

• get_trend

  Historical year-series for a metric in one canton (e.g. sunshine back to 1884, migration to 1981, rent to 2010). metric = key from list_metrics with history: rent_mean, net_migration_per_1000, foreigner_pct, sunshine_hours, balance_per_capita, beds_per_1000, jobs…

• upcoming_votes

  The next Swiss federal vote dates and (once announced) the subjects on the ballot, in DE/FR/IT/EN (official Federal Chancellery / VoteInfo data).

• recommend_canton

  Personal canton recommendation ("Where should I live in Switzerland?"): weight 5 categories 0–3 (cost = rent/premiums/electricity; tax = income tax/fiscal balance; work = jobs/unemployment/migration; env = sunshine/crime/vacancy; health = hospital capacity) and get all 26…

• get_salary

  Official gross monthly salaries in Switzerland (BFS Swiss Earnings Structure Survey LSE): median and P10/P25/P75/P90 for all employees, women and men, by major region and economic sector. canton (2-letter) is mapped to its BFS major region, because the FSO publishes salaries by…

• get_minimum_wage

  Statutory cantonal minimum wages in Switzerland (official cantonal pages): hourly amount, valid from, history and the monthly equivalent at 40 hours. Only five cantons have one (BS, GE, JU, NE, TI); without canton the list of all five is returned. Elsewhere minimums apply only…

• get_payroll_rates

  Official Swiss social-security payroll deductions for the current year (AHV/IV/EO, unemployment insurance ALV with ceiling, occupational pension BVG coordinated salary and age credits), as used for a gross-to-net salary estimate.

• get_premium_subsidy

  Health-insurance premium subsidies (Prämienverbilligung / réduction des primes) per canton (FOPH KVSTAT): share of insured receiving a subsidy, average CHF per beneficiary and per household, subsidy as % of the mean premium, federal vs cantonal funding, plus the responsible…

• get_family_tax_deductions

  Swiss income-tax deductions for families (ESTV tax folder): maximum childcare (third-party care) deduction per child and the child deduction (Kinderabzug) rule for a canton, plus the federal values. canton = 2-letter abbreviation; omit for federal only.

• get_housing_costs

  Average monthly housing costs per household in Switzerland (BFS household budget survey HABE): net rent or mortgage interest, ancillary costs (Nebenkosten: flat-rate charges, water, waste water, waste, upkeep), energy (electricity, gas/fuels, heating), with BFS quality grades…

• get_reference_rate

  Swiss mortgage reference interest rate for rents (BWO/FOH): current rate, valid since, next publication dates, every change since 2008, and the rule for rent adjustments (VMWG Art. 13). Optional lease_rate (the rate in the lease) returns the quarter-point steps since then. Also…

• data_freshness

  How current the Swiss Living Index data is: every scheduled official data source with where it runs (cloud, a Mac on the Swiss network, or the A5000 language-model machine), its cadence in days, the last successful check, the next due date and a status (current, due, overdue =…

• list_datasets

  Catalogue of EVERY dataset published by the Swiss Living Index (about 125: migration, births and first names, crime, public finances, cross-border commuters, vehicles, broadband, sustainability, naturalisations, permits, health care, housing, income, education and more), each…

• get_dataset

  Read one Swiss Living Index dataset (id from list_datasets), exactly as published on the site (official values, unchanged). Filter with canton (2-letter) and/or commune (name or BFS number), section (a top-level key), from_year / to_year. Large datasets return a size summary…

• get_commune

  Fact sheet for one Swiss commune (by name, BFS number or postcode); for communes with a one-pager also the president, council, administration contacts, departments, upcoming meetings, news, tenders and projects read from the commune website (with source and date): population…

• compare_health_insurers

  Every approved basic health-insurance premium (FOPH) for a commune or premium region: cheapest offers for an adult (26+), young adult (19–25) or child, by deductible, insurance model (standard, family doctor/HMO, telemedicine, other) and accident cover, with the insurer and…

• get_electricity_price

  Official electricity tariff (ElCom) for a Swiss commune and its grid operator(s): total, energy, grid use, commune charges and federal levy in Rappen per kWh, for 2025–2027, and the yearly bill for a consumption profile (ElCom categories H1–H8, default H4 = 5-room flat, 4500…

• fuel_prices_near

  Is the drive across the border worth it? Official station prices in France, Austria and Italy (live / daily official sources) near a Swiss place, ranked by net saving vs the official Swiss average price (BFS) after the fuel used for the round trip. place = postcode or locality…

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