Winterthur and Zurich in numbers
| Winterthur | Zurich | |
|---|---|---|
| Different homes for rent | 394 | 3,382 |
| Median asking rent, all sizes | CHF 2,162 | CHF 2,550 |
| Per square metre and month | CHF 28.90 | CHF 39.60 |
| 2.5 rooms | CHF 2,028 | CHF 2,569 |
| 3.5 rooms | CHF 2,510 | CHF 3,188 |
| 4.5 rooms | CHF 2,810 | CHF 3,800 |
Source: aptari feed, 9 November 2026. Asking rent is the rent shown in the listing. These are not official statistics.
What the numbers mean for your search
- You save most on large flats. The gap to Zurich is CHF 541 for 2.5 rooms, CHF 678 for 3.5 rooms and CHF 990 for 4.5 rooms. Families gain more from Winterthur than single people do.
- Winterthur is not cheap by Swiss standards. Its median of CHF 2,162 lies above the Swiss median of CHF 1,860 and above Bern (CHF 1,924) and Basel (CHF 1,755).
- There are few flats at any one time. With 394 homes on the market, there is about one home in Winterthur for every nine in Zurich. A good flat may be the one of its kind that month, so new adverts matter more than browsing old ones.
A plan that fits a small market
- Decide on size and top rent with the table above. If your limit is under the median for your size, widen the search to the rest of the canton of Zurich, which has 6,603 homes in the feed.
- Get the dossier ready before the first viewing: ID, salary certificate, debt extract (Betreibungsauszug) and references.
- Check new adverts every day, or let alerts do it.
- Ask for a viewing in your first message and apply the same day.
- Look at housing cooperatives as well as the large portals. Their flats are advertised on their own websites.
Searching Winterthur on aptari
In a market of a few hundred homes you cannot afford to miss the ones that sit on one portal alone. aptari shows the Winterthur adverts of Homegate, ImmoScout24, Flatfox and about 800 housing cooperative websites in one feed, free to browse. A saved search for Winterthur with your size and rent limit sends you alerts for new listings in Pro, Ultra and the 14-day free trial. Your Tenant Passport holds the dossier, built once. Wherever the Apply with Aptari button shows, it writes your message in the listing's language, adds a private link to the dossier and copies it, and you paste and send it on the portal.