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Sockets and voltage in Switzerland

  • Type CCEE 7/16 (Europlug)No earth
  • Type JSN 441011 type 13Earthed
Voltage
230 V
Frequency
50 Hz
Earthed sockets
Type J

The hexagonal Swiss socket takes a Europlug, but a Schuko plug is too wide to enter it.

What you need, by where you are coming from

  • Arriving from the United States or CanadaA plug adapter, and appliances marked 100-240 V. Anything single-voltage needs a converter.
  • Arriving from the UK or IrelandA plug adapter is enough - the voltage is the same as at home.
  • Arriving from most of continental EuropePlugs go straight in and the voltage matches. Nothing to pack.
  • Arriving from Australia or New ZealandA plug adapter is enough - the voltage is the same as at home.

Socket types, voltage and frequency are the nominal domestic supply as published in IEC/TR 60083 and the national standards it lists.

Swiss sockets are the hexagonal Type at 230 V - a Europlug fits, and a Schuko plug is simply too wide.

Sockets in Switzerland are Type at 230 V, 50 Hz - three round pins in a hexagonal recess that exists nowhere else except Liechtenstein.

  • It looks like a Type socket with a third hole slightly off centre. That offset earth is the whole difference, and it is why a Swiss plug fits nothing abroad.
  • A Europlug fits a Swiss socket. Chargers and laptop bricks are fine without an adapter.
  • A Schuko plug does not. The German plug's round body is too wide for the hexagonal recess, so an appliance lead from Germany, Austria or Italy needs an adapter - a surprise for people driving in from a neighbouring country.
  • British, American and Australian plugs need one too.
  • 230 V, so only American 120 V-only equipment needs a converter. Swiss supermarkets sell adapters; so does every station kiosk.

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