Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Switzerland, September 2026, across 94 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+1.2%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

0.0%

over a year

Energy

+12.6%

over a year

Services

+1.2%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

−0.9%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Switzerland
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Liquid fuels	+65.0%	0.4%
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+22.4%	1.8%
Package holidays	+19.0%	1.8%
Jewellery and watches	+7.9%	0.2%
Other information and communication services	+7.6%	0.2%
Insurance connected with transport	+7.4%	0.8%
Soft drinks	+7.1%	0.2%
Insurance connected with dwellings	+4.8%	0.5%
Stationery and drawing materials	+4.2%	0.1%
Newspapers and periodicals	+4.0%	0.4%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Switzerland
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−10.0%	0.2%
Shoes and other footwear	−7.2%	0.5%
Accommodation services	−5.5%	2.5%
Other personal effects n.e.c.	−4.9%	0.2%
Other services related to personal transport equipment	−4.2%	0.8%
Medicines	−3.7%	3.2%
Games, toys and hobby-related articles	−3.4%	0.3%
Electricity	−3.0%	1.8%
Gas	−3.0%	0.5%
Major electric and other household appliances	−2.7%	0.3%

Source: Eurostat HICP, annual rate of change by ECOICOP class (prc_hicp_minr) and item weights for 2026 (prc_hicp_iw). Weight = share of the average household's spending. Categories under 0.1% of spending are left out so that tiny items with volatile prices do not crowd the lists. Red: prices up; blue: prices down.