Cost of Living in Lausanne

This page summarises typical cost of living in Lausanne, Switzerland, expressed in CHF. A single person can expect to budget around 2,700 CHF per month before rent-driven variation, with an affordability score of 34/100 (higher means more affordable). On that scale Lausanne is expensive relative to other cities in the dataset. These are deterministic planning estimates derived from a country cost baseline adjusted for the city's affordability and size — they are not live market prices, not a ranking, and should be verified against current local sources before relocation or travel decisions.

Currency: CHF. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16.

Lausanne has an affordability score of 34/100, which places it in the expensive range relative to other indexed cities. Because every city profile uses the same scale, this score is the most reliable cross-city comparison — local-currency totals above are not directly comparable between countries.

In Lausanne a single-person monthly budget is around 2,700 CHF and a one-bedroom rent around 1,430 CHF. Use the affordability score (34/100) to compare across countries, since amounts are shown in each city's local currency.

• Cost of living in Geneva — affordability 60/100
• Cost of living in Zurich — affordability 52/100
• Cost of living in Basel — affordability 62/100