--- title: "Montreux – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Montreux from Geneva, Zurich and Bâle / Mulhouse: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Montreux is a Swiss municipality…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/montreux" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/montreux.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Montreux_%28Svizzera%29_Panoramica_del_centro_della_citt%C3%A0_dal_lago.jpg" --- ![Montreux](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Montreux_%28Svizzera%29_Panoramica_del_centro_della_citt%C3%A0_dal_lago.jpg) # Montreux Montreux is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps. [Plan a trip to Montreux](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Montreux) [From Geneva](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Montreux) ## Every way there - Geneva → Montreux 64 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · CHF10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-montreux) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Montreux) - Zurich → Montreux 162 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · CHF22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-montreux) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Montreux) - Bâle / Mulhouse → Montreux 138 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-montreux) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Montreux) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. The field note What is in and around Montreux, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Montreux](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/montreux) What Montreux has - Y Scheduled flights Geneva (GVA), 65 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time - Y Ferries Montreux, 0 km, Compagnie générale de navigation sur le lac Léman (CGN); sailings estimated - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share 1 share feeds in Transitous, not surfaced yet - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. 46.435°, 6.912° It belongs to the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district in the canton of Vaud, having a population of nearly 27,000 with about 85,000 in the Vevey-Montreux agglomeration as of 2019. Get in ## Getting to Montreux Geneva Cointrin International Airport (GVA IATA) is the closest major airport to Montreux, and serves direct flights from most major European hubs, as well as a few cities in Canada and the United States, North Africa, and the Middle East. From Geneva, it's a little more than an hour by car, and less than an hour by train. The railway station in Geneva is connected to Geneva International Airport. 1. Montreux Gare Avenue des Alpes 45. See ## Worth seeing 1. Château de Chillon Avenue de Chillon 21 (The castle is 45 minutes' walk from Montreux along the lakeside, or 4 minutes by train (Veytaux-Chillon station).),. 2. Freddie Mercury Likely the best known statue in Montreux, the voice of the rock band Queen overlooking the lake. 3. Queen the Studio Experience 4. Casino Barrière de Montreux It was built in 1881, then rebuilt in the 1970s after a fire in 1971 which was immortalised by the Deep Purple classic "Smoke on the Water". 5. Swiss Museum of Games Do ## Things to do Cruises. Take a cruise on the unique Belle Epoque paddle steamers and discover Lavaux from the lake. Timetable at Compagnie Générale de Navigation's website. Take a journey at the "alpage". How locals move ## Getting around Montreux the local way - Get around The company, which operates 1/3 of the Golden Pass route to Lucerne along with the BLS and the Zentralbahn brought under its sales banner, the cog-wheel Montreux - Glion - Rochers-de-Naye Railway and its associated funicular from nearby Territet, the Les Avants - Sonloup funicular and the lines of the former CEV from Vevey into the hills. From [Wikivoyage: Montreux](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Montreux), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Montreux), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/montreux, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt