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Easy on the valley floor. Everything above it is a different quote.
Sion sits on the floor of the Rhône valley beneath two rock hills, in the driest and sunniest part of Switzerland. Delivering to the town is unremarkable. Delivering to anywhere up the side valleys that lead off it is a different matter entirely.
There are villages in this canton that admit no ordinary road vehicles, where the final stage is handled locally by whatever the village itself uses. That is not an obstacle, but it is emphatically not something to discover on moving day. The Rhône valley is wide, flat and served by good road, so a lorry reaching Sion has had an easy run whichever direction it came from. The town itself sits on that floor with ordinary streets and ordinary access.
What Sion is really the gateway to is everything above. The side valleys run south into the Alps and north up towards the high plateaux, and the resorts and villages along them are where a large share of moves in this canton actually end.
Those are different jobs. The roads climb through hairpins, they narrow, some are weather dependent for months, and a few destinations do not admit ordinary vehicles at all. If your address is up a valley, the town name on its own is not enough.
Sion also appears as Sitten and Valais. Whichever version you searched for, this is the same city and the same page. Give the mover the address exactly as it appears on your Swiss lease.
This is the driest and sunniest region in Switzerland, and the valley slopes are terraced with vineyards that make use of it. That climate draws two kinds of arrival: people relocating for the quality of life, and people buying into the resort villages above.
Second home moves behave differently from household ones. Loads are often smaller, timing follows a season rather than a job, and the property may be empty and unheated on arrival.
Foreign purchase of Swiss residential property is restricted, and the position differs between principal and secondary residences. That is a question for a Swiss lawyer rather than a mover, but it is worth settled before a delivery date is fixed.
Of everything a mover can take on, these three matter most for Sion.
Why a valley address is priced separately.
Sharing a lorry, and where the transfer happens.
Furniture into a chalet at the top of a valley.
The valleys leading off the Rhône are the reason a Valais quote needs the full address. They climb steeply, the roads hairpin between rock and drop, and the width narrows well before you reach the villages at the top.
A full sized vehicle that managed the run to Sion frequently cannot manage the last hour. The goods transfer to something smaller at a practical point in the valley, and that stage is arranged and priced separately.
Some destinations go further still. There are villages in this canton that admit no ordinary road vehicles, where the final stage is handled locally by whatever the village itself uses. That is not an obstacle, but it is emphatically not something to discover on moving day.
Valais is a bilingual canton and the divide runs along the valley. Sion and the lower Valais are French speaking, and everything you deal with here, the commune, the lease, the utilities, will be in French.
Further east, the Upper Valais is German speaking, and the change is a real one rather than a formality. If your delivery address is up the valley towards Visp or Brig, the working language may not be the one you have been using with people in Sion.
Sion itself is Sitten in German, which appears on paperwork prepared in the German speaking part of the country. It is the same town.
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Yes. It sits on the floor of the Rhône valley, which is wide, flat and served by good road, so the run in is straightforward from any direction and the town has ordinary streets and ordinary access. The complication is everything above the valley floor.
Then the last stage is a separate job. The valleys climb steeply through hairpins and narrow well before the villages at the top, so a full sized vehicle usually cannot manage the final hour. The goods transfer to something smaller at a practical point, and that stage is priced on its own.
Some Valais villages admit no ordinary road vehicles at all, and the final stage there is handled locally by whatever means the village itself uses. It is entirely normal and entirely arrangeable, but it must be raised at enquiry stage rather than discovered when the lorry stops short.
French in Sion and the lower Valais. The canton is bilingual and the divide runs along the valley, so the Upper Valais further east is German speaking. If your address is up the valley towards Visp or Brig, the working language may not be the one you used in Sion.
Yes. Sitten is the German name for Sion and it appears on paperwork prepared in German speaking Switzerland. The town is French speaking, so Sion is what your lease and your commune will use, and that is the form to give a mover.
The main valley road is kept open and cleared. What changes in winter is the confidence you can have in a precise arrival time up the side valleys, where conditions matter more. Build slack into the far end rather than booking a tight chain of dates through a mountain valley in January.
On the move itself, that the property may be empty and unheated when the crew arrives, so goods that travelled cold need time to settle. On the purchase, foreign ownership of Swiss residential property is restricted and the rules differ for secondary residences. That is a question for a Swiss lawyer.
Collection address, the Sion delivery address, a room by room list and the window you can work with. One vetted moving company from our network checks the route and the access, then comes back to you.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, founder of International Removals Companies, who has run the business since 2010. Last checked 5 August 2026.