Rapperswil

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Rapperswil

Total population

26,354

Air quality index

42Good

Elevation422 m

Coordinates47.23°, 8.82°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Rapperswil is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the constituency of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located between Obersee and the main part of Lake Zurich.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Nearby places in St. Gallen

• Jona
  1 mi away · pop. 17,799
• Wagen
  3.3 mi away
• Ermenswil
  3.5 mi away
• Bollingen
  3.7 mi away
• Eschenbach SG
  5 mi away · pop. 5,083
• Schmerikon
  5.9 mi away · pop. 3,182
• Neuhaus SG
  6.2 mi away
• Bürg
  6.2 mi away
• St. Gallenkappel
  7.2 mi away · pop. 1,719
• Goldingen
  7.5 mi away · pop. 1,129
• Uznach
  7.9 mi away · pop. 5,369
• Rüeterswil
  8.4 mi away

Browse all places in St. Gallen →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Rapperswil

Project einer normalspurigen Eisenbahn st. Gallen-rapperswil-zug

Ad Brunner · 1890

Das neue st. gallische Enteignungsgesetz

Hochschule St. Gallen für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Schweizerisches Institut für Verwaltungskurse. Informationstagung · 1985

Das Neue st. gallische Gemeindegesetz

1980

Der römische Vicus von Kempraten, Rapperswil-Jona

Regula Ackermann · 2013

Die sog. Klingenberger Chronik des Eberhard Wüst, Stadtschreiber von Rapperswil

Eberhard Wüst · 2007

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Dunlin

Calidris alpina

Seen 2026-10-16

tree-of-heaven

Ailanthus altissima

Seen 2026-10-14

Common Pochard

Aythya ferina

Seen 2026-10-12

Great Crested Grebe

Podiceps cristatus

Seen 2026-10-12

Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo

Seen 2026-10-12

Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Seen 2026-10-12

Western Conifer Seed Bug

Leptoglossus occidentalis

Seen 2026-10-12

Small White

Pieris rapae

Seen 2026-10-12

Water Rail

Rallus aquaticus

Seen 2026-10-11

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).