For art aficionados, the catalogue of works hanging in the Kunsthaus, reads like a dictionary of art, with favourites including Rodin´s ´Gate of Hell´, a wing dedicated to Swiss-born sculptor Giacometti and the largest Edvard Munch collection outside of Scandinavia.
Souvenir hunters will be happy to find out that shopping goes beyond multi-purpose army knives and chocolate (although chocoholics shouldn´t miss out on a tour of the Lindt & Sprüngli factory just outside the city centre), and boutiques don´t get much more chic (or expensive) than a
| Avg. temp. |
Sunshine daily avg. |
Rainfall | Humidity | |
| Jan | 1.7 | 1.5 | 74 | 75 |
| Feb | 3.3 | 2.8 | 70 | 73 |
| Mar | 8.3 | 4.8 | 66 | 63 |
| Apr | 11.7 | 5.8 | 80 | 61 |
| May | 16.7 | 6.7 | 107 | 58 |
| Jun | 19.4 | 7.3 | 136 | 61 |
| Jul | 22.2 | 7.7 | 143 | 59 |
| Aug | 21.7 | 7.1 | 131 | 61 |
| Sep | 18.3 | 5.5 | 108 | 63 |
| Oct | 13.3 | 3.5 | 80 | 67 |
| Nov | 6.1 | 1.7 | 76 | 76 |
| Dec | 3.9 | 1.2 | 65 | 99 |
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