Free Things To Do In Zurich

Free Walking Tours In Zurich, All 10

Zurich carries 10 free walking tours on GuruWalk, each run by an independent local guide, and none of them by this site. Joining costs nothing. You reserve a place on the guide's GuruWalk page, meet at the meeting point stated there, and decide yourself what to hand the guide at the end. The roster below lays the walks side by side: an English or Spanish option, a short evening-length loop or a longer neighbourhood wander, Old Town viewpoints or districts locals actually live in.

Every Zurich Free Tour, Side By Side

The Zurich Must-See: Secret Viewpoints and Old Town walk meets at Hotel Central Plaza, runs in English and Spanish for 1 hour 30 minutes, and is rated 4.68 out of 5 across 1,282 GuruWalk reviews. The Original Zurich Free Tour starts at Paradeplatz, lists German, English and Spanish, and is rated 4.62 out of 5 across 1,170 reviews.

WalkLanguagesDurationReviews
Secret Viewpoints TourEnglish, Spanish1 hour 30 minutes1,282
Small-Group 2-Hour Free TourSpanish2 hours1,195
Multilingual Original TourGerman, English, Spanish1 hour 45 minutes1,170
At Home Tour, SpanishSpanish2 hours923
Christmas Markets And Old TownEnglish, Spanish1 hour 30 minutes275
Photos And Local Life TourSpanish2 hours126
New Home Welcome TourEnglish1 hour 30 minutes33
3-Hour Female Voice TourSpanish3 hours31
Classic With A Twist, GermanGerman1 hour 30 minutes19
Young Eyes, German And FrenchGerman, French1 hour 30 minutesNone Yet

Second most reviewed is the Small Groups free tour from Zeughausplatz, rated 4.86 out of 5 across 1,195 GuruWalk reviews, though it runs in Spanish. Every walk here is on GuruWalk, so every rating is on the same out-of-5 scale.

Showing all 10 free walking tours

Free walkCategoryLengthLanguageRatingReviewsGuide
Secret Viewpoints Tour Old Town And Viewpoints 1 hour 30 minutes English and Spanish 4.68/5 1,282 Named on GuruWalk
Small-Group 2-Hour Free Tour Old Town And Viewpoints 2 hours Spanish 4.86/5 1,195 Named on GuruWalk
Multilingual Original Tour Old Town And Viewpoints 1 hour 45 minutes German, English and Spanish 4.62/5 1,170 Named on GuruWalk
At Home Tour, Spanish Local Life And Neighbourhoods 2 hours Spanish 4.97/5 923 Named on GuruWalk
Christmas Markets And Old Town Old Town And Viewpoints 1 hour 30 minutes English and Spanish 4.79/5 275 Named on GuruWalk
Photos And Local Life Tour Local Life And Neighbourhoods 2 hours Spanish 4.93/5 126 Named on GuruWalk
New Home Welcome Tour Local Life And Neighbourhoods 1 hour 30 minutes English 4.76/5 33 Named on GuruWalk
3-Hour Female Voice Tour Local Life And Neighbourhoods 3 hours Spanish 5.0/5 31 Named on GuruWalk
Classic With A Twist, German Old Town And Viewpoints 1 hour 30 minutes German 4.58/5 19 Named on GuruWalk
Young Eyes, German And French Local Life And Neighbourhoods 1 hour 30 minutes German and French No reviews yet 0 Named on GuruWalk

The free and pay-what-you-want walking tours in Zurich listed here from GuruWalk, in English, Spanish, German or French: 10 walks, 10 of them with a full page on this site. This is not every walk on either platform: listings that state no language are left out. 1 listing has no published rating and shows "Too few reviews for a score yet".

All ten walks on this site run on GuruWalk, each run by an independent local guide. Every walk is free, pay what you want, and the reservation itself happens on GuruWalk's own page for that walk. Nothing is charged ahead of the walk.

What Pay What You Want Means

Every walk in this directory runs on one model: free to reserve, free to join, pay what you want. A spot is taken on the guide's own page at GuruWalk, and the walker decides afterwards what to give. Nothing on this page quotes a price, because none of the walks has one. All ten tours reserve on GuruWalk.

LanguageWalks Offering It
Spanish7
English4
German3
French1

Free Zurich Walking Tours In Spanish

Several walks here run in Spanish. The Small Groups free tour from Zeughausplatz is rated 4.86 out of 5 across 1,195 GuruWalk reviews and lasts 2 hours. At Home in Zurich, also from Paradeplatz and 2 hours, is rated 4.97 out of 5 across 923 reviews. Discover Zurich: Photos, History, and Local Life starts at Opernhaus and is rated 4.93 out of 5 across 126 reviews. The 3-hour Zurich with a female voice walk from Bahnhofstrasse rates 5 out of 5 across 31 reviews. Walks that run in English sit elsewhere on this page, since a Spanish-only walk does not suit an English-speaking visitor.

Questions About Free Walking Tours In Zurich

Is A Free Zurich Walking Tour Really Free?

Nothing is sold here and no payment passes through this site. Each walk follows the same arrangement, free to join with a tip for the guide at the end, and the reservation itself happens on GuruWalk, where the meeting point is also stated. This directory simply sends readers to those pages.

How Do I Book A Place On A Free Zurich Walk?

No booking is taken on this site. Each of the walks lives on GuruWalk, and a free place is claimed on the walk's own page there before you meet the guide. This directory points readers toward GuruWalk and earns referral fees when somebody reserves through its links; the tours themselves stay with the guides who run them.

What Should I Tip The Guide After A Free Walk?

No figure is printed against any walk, because there is no figure to print. All ten tours are free, pay what you want: taking a place collects nothing and joining the group collects nothing. What a walker gives the guide at the end is that walker's own decision, and anything further sits on the walk's page at GuruWalk.

How Do Free Zurich Walking Tours Earn Money?

The setup works like this: all the walks listed are free, pay what you want, booked through GuruWalk, where the independent guides operate them. The guides are paid by the tips walkers choose to give. On a separate track, referral fees go to this site whenever a reader reserves through its links, adding nothing to what that reader pays.

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