Cash Rate

Swiss National Bank, via BIS

Switzerland SNB policy rate

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0.00%

−0.25 pp last change (19 Jun 2025)

As at 17 Sep 2026 | Daily (policy rate; changes on decision days)

Mean
2.10%
Median
1.75%
Min
-0.75% 15 Jan 2015
Max
7.00% 16 Aug 1991
DateRate
17 Sep 20260.00
31 Aug 20260.00
31 Jul 20260.00
30 Jun 20260.00
31 May 20260.00
30 Apr 20260.00
31 Mar 20260.00
28 Feb 20260.00
31 Jan 20260.00
31 Dec 20250.00
30 Nov 20250.00
31 Oct 20250.00
30 Sep 20250.00
31 Aug 20250.00
31 Jul 20250.00
30 Jun 20250.00
31 May 20250.25
30 Apr 20250.25
31 Mar 20250.25
28 Feb 20250.50
31 Jan 20250.50
31 Dec 20240.50
30 Nov 20241.00
31 Oct 20241.00

About the SNB policy rate

Swiss National Bank policy rate, from the BIS policy-rate data set (WS_CBPOL, CH). Current: 0.00% on 17 Sep 2026. Since June 2019 this is the SNB policy rate; 2000–2019 is the mid-point of the target range; earlier years are the discount rate.

The chart is a step at policy changes. From 1 Jan 1946 to 17 Sep 2026 (29,480 observations): mean 2.10%, median 1.75%; low -0.75% (15 Jan 2015), high 7.00% (16 Aug 1991). Not a mortgage or deposit rate. This page is not an official BIS publication.

Source: BIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL), Switzerland daily. Licence: BIS statistics: unrestricted reuse with attribution; inclusion must not add a charge to users. This page is not an official BIS publication (terms). Files: data/raw/bis-ch-policy.json.

Reading this series

The Swiss National Bank's policy rate is the rate the SNB uses to steer monetary conditions in Switzerland. This page uses the BIS central bank policy rate series for Switzerland (WS_CBPOL), compiled with the SNB. Since June 2019 the series is the SNB policy rate; from 2000 to 2019 it is the mid-point of the SNB's target range for the three-month Libor, and earlier years are the discount rate. The BIS stitches these instruments into one comparable series, and the rate changes only at SNB decisions, so it is drawn as daily steps.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line; when the rate has been held, the page shows the date of the last actual move. Mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the observations in this build, not official aggregates. Chart and Table show the same series two ways, range buttons filter the drawn window, and Explore loads zoom and pan on request. The policy rate is not a mortgage or deposit rate, and this page is not an official BIS publication.

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The United Kingdom desk leads with Bank Rate, the Bank of England's policy rate, then SONIA, the sterling overnight market benchmark the Bank publishes but does not set. Euro-area, US, Canadian and Australian rates follow, with the rest of the build's series after them. All desks republish the same official series; this desk only reorders the menu and the wording, so the figures do not change when you switch desks.

Both UK series come from Bank of England statistical tables and are republished under the Bank's open-data terms, with attribution. Bank Rate is a policy setting that moves at MPC decisions; SONIA is a transaction-based market rate that moves daily. The build does not publish a UK retail mortgage or savings rate, because no such official series is ingested here — those pages are absent rather than estimated. This is not financial advice.