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.

18 datasets found

  • 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
  • NAQUA-QUANT Monitoring sites (NAQUA National groundwater monitoring)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Groundwater is the result of the percolation of rainfall and the infiltration of river water. Groundwater levels and spring discharges therefore respond – though possibly with a...

    Last updated: January 30, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • water-geographic
    • hydrology
    • 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
  • 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
  • Modelled altitudinal vegetation belts for 1975

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

    This map shows the altitudinal belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 1961-1990. The following altitudinal vegetation belts only occur in the southern valleys:...

    Last updated: September 9, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-ecology
    • forest-resource
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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
  • Altitudinal vegetation belts in Switzerland for 2085 with less 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 less dry future climate. The following altitudinal...

    Last updated: September 16, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-ecology
    • forest-resource
    • 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
  • 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 storm damage caused by “Vivian” in 1990

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Federal government inventory of damage caused by “Vivian” in February 1990: database of areas of total damage in forests. Defined criteria and conditions: Area of total damage:...

    Last updated: January 15, 1992

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • forestry
    • storm-damage
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Groundwater temperature

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map provides an overview of Switzerland's current groundwater temperatures. The calculation is based on percentiles of the dataset for the standard period 1991–2020 or, in the...

    Last updated: June 23, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • hydrology
    • groundwater
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Lothar 1999 storm damage inventory

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The aim of the federal government’s “Lothar” storm damage inventory was to produce a complete and uniform database of total and partial damage to forests throughout Switzerland....

    Last updated: January 19, 2010

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • storm-damage
    • wood
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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