2025
Swiss glaciers lost 3.0% of their volume.
Swiss ice volume−3.0%change over the year
Mass balance−1.57m w.e.mean of 27 glaciers
Events
2025What happened
collapse
2025Blatten
Rockfalls overloaded the Birch Glacier until it collapsed. Rock and ice buried most of the village of Blatten, which had been evacuated nine days before.
record
A quarter in ten years
Another 3% gone in 2025. Since 2015 Switzerland has lost a quarter of its glacier ice.
Mass balance
27 glaciers
| Glacier | Annual balance |
|---|---|
| Glacier du Sex Rouge | −2.72 m w.e. |
| Glacier de Tsanfleuron | −2.67 m w.e. |
| Glacier de la Plaine Morte | −2.57 m w.e. |
| Plan Névé NE | −2.31 m w.e. |
| Silvrettagletscher | −2.27 m w.e. |
| Glacier d'Otemma zentral | −2.25 m w.e. |
| Griesgletscher | −2.18 m w.e. |
| Oberaargletscher | −1.89 m w.e. |
| Claridenfirn | −1.80 m w.e. |
| Glacier de Tortin zentral | −1.72 m w.e. |
| Ghiacciaio del Basòdino | −1.67 m w.e. |
| Grosser Aletschgletscher | −1.61 m w.e. |
| Glatscher da Medel E | −1.53 m w.e. |
| Glacier d'Orny | −1.44 m w.e. |
| Rhonegletscher | −1.41 m w.e. |
| Vadret dal Corvatsch S | −1.30 m w.e. |
| Schwarzberggletscher zentral | −1.25 m w.e. |
| E22-16 | −1.25 m w.e. |
| Glacier de Corbassière | −1.25 m w.e. |
| Glacier du Giétro | −1.21 m w.e. |
| B51-41 | −1.16 m w.e. |
| Vadret dal Murtèl | −1.07 m w.e. |
| Hohlaubgletscher | −1.04 m w.e. |
| Allalingletscher | −0.86 m w.e. |
| Findelgletscher | −0.77 m w.e. |
| Chessjengletscher NW | −0.76 m w.e. |
| Feegletscher | −0.40 m w.e. |