Federal Office for the Environment FOEN

The federal environmental authority. It is responsible for ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably, that the public is protected against natural hazards, and that the environment is protected from unacceptable adverse impacts.

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Mapping of Floodplains of National Importance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

In order to give cantons the option of taking the protection of floodplains of probable national importance into their own hands as quickly as possible, the Swiss Agency for the...

Last updated: September 17, 2025
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Water temperature of rivers and streams

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map provides an overview of current water temperatures in Switzerland's rivers.

Last updated: October 30, 2014
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- flowing-water
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Underground flow paths in karst regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Underground flow paths layer indicates the probable direction taken by the groundwater in karst regions within the catchments towards the relevant spring. These interpretations...

Last updated: July 1, 2015
- karst
- environment
- spring-hydrology-land
- hydrogeology
- groundwater
National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL: stations

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) monitors air quality at 16 different locations in Switzerland. The monitoring stations are spread over the entire country and...

Last updated: January 1, 2021
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- pollutant
- air
- air-pollutant
- atmospheric-conditions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- e-geoch
Federal Inventory of Dry Grasslands of National Importance (DGS)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Dry grasslands are habitats with a wide variety of species that are marked by agricultural use. In accordance with the Federal Act on Protecting Nature and Cultural Heritage, the...

Last updated: December 1, 2025
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- biotope
- arid-land
- inventory
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Forest ecoregions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the Forest Ecoregions. They differ in terms of climatic factors, forest vegetation and altitudinal vegetation belts. The southernmost tip of Ticino is considered to...

Last updated: June 3, 2020
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Modelled altitudinal vegetation belts for 2085 with dry future climate

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

This map shows the altitudinal vegetation belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 2070-2099 assuming a dry future climate. The following altitudinal vegetation...

Last updated: September 16, 2021
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- forest-resource
- wood
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Forest mix rate NFI

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

Information on the degree of forest mix rate NFI is modelled using remote sensing methods. Based on the freely available Copernicus (ESA) Sentinel-1 and -2 satellite data (image...

Last updated: October 31, 2023
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- official-geodata
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- deciduous-forest
- mixed-woodland
- wood
- forest-resource
- coniferous-forest
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Stations hydrological forecasts

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map provides an overview of stations forecasted by FEWS.

Last updated: January 30, 2015
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- hydrology
- flowing-water
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss residual flow maps Return flows

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten....

Last updated: January 1, 2004
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- environment
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
Swiss residual flow maps Supply

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten....

Last updated: January 1, 2004
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- environment
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Areas of silver fir

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and...

Last updated: June 3, 2020
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Catchment units in karst regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Karst catchment units layer consists of the unit areas from which similar groundwater flow behaviour towards the karst spring can be expected. In particular, it allows for the...

Last updated: July 1, 2015
- environment
- hydrogeology
- groundwater
- karst
- spring-hydrology-land
General situation of groundwater levels and spring discharges

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map provides an overview of the current groundwater levels and spring discharges in Switzerland. Percentiles based on the daily values of the reference period 1991–2020 are...

Last updated: September 21, 2016
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Nitrogen Deposition

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The time series shows the modelled total deposition of nitrogen for the years 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 in a resolution of 500m as a sum of wet, dry and gaseous...

Last updated: August 15, 2022
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- air
- pollutant
- air-pollutant
- human-health-and-safety
- atmospheric-conditions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
Residual flow map of Switzerland: catchment

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten....

Last updated: January 1, 2004
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- environment
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
General situation of rivers and lakes

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the current Swissriver discharges and lake water levels compared with the monthly percentiles of the long term hourly averages (expressed in percentiles). The...

Last updated: October 30, 2014
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- lake
- water-geographic
- hydrology
- flowing-water
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Comparison of discharge and water gauge data with hazard levels

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the current discharge at all the stations, as compared with flood hazard levels.

Last updated: October 30, 2014
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- lake
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- watercourse
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Map of the recent earthquakes (last 90 days) in and around Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map of the earthquakes of the last 90 days shows the current seismic activity in Switzerland and the nearby regions recorded by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH...

Last updated: November 1, 2016
- SERVICE
- WMS
- API
- earthquake
- landsat
- natural-risk-zones
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Flood alert map

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The flood alert map shows the current flood danger level (1 to 5) for all and for the regions in relation to small and medium-sized rivers. The rivers of national interest are...

Last updated: November 5, 2014
- SERVICE
- WMS
- ZIP
- flood
- flowing-water
- hydrology
- lake
- natural-hazard
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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