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Municipality · Aargau
Aarau is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau. The town is also the capital of the district of Aarau. It is German-speaking and predominantly Protestant. Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aare, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura Mountains, and is west of Zurich, 58 kilometres south of Basel and 65 kilometres northeast of Bern. The municipality borders directly on the canton of Solothurn to the west. It is the largest town in Aargau. At the beginning of 2010 Rohr became a district of Aarau.
The vacancy rate is 0.45%, 57% below the cantonal average (1.04 %) — a tight rental market. The municipal tax multiplier (Steuerfuss) is 96% (2026), 8% below the average of the canton's municipalities (103.8 %) — low for the canton. A single person without children on a gross wage of CHF 100'000 pays CHF 10'611 a year in canton, municipality and personal tax (tax year 2026, without church, federal and wealth tax). On the mean of the municipalities weighted by residents it is CHF 11'027 in the canton and CHF 12'251 in Switzerland. Median taxable income of all taxpayers is CHF 54'300 (tax period 2022). Aarau has 22'932 residents (2025).
Sources: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA).
Annual mean 10.0°C with 920 mm of rain. Warmest in July (19.4°C), coldest in January (1.2°C). Station: Buchs / Aarau, 387 m.
Sunshine
1'529 h
Precipitation
920 mm
Buchs / Aarau · 387 m.a.s.l. · 1991–2020 normals · Source: MeteoSchweiz
Mean annual temperature at Luzern has risen by +2.4°C between the first 30 observed years (1871–1900) and the most recent (1996–2025).
Luzern · 454 m.a.s.l. · 1871–2025 · Source: MeteoSchweiz NBCN
Source: FSO
CHF 1'720.–/month
3.2 kmCHF 2'390.–/month
3.2 kmCHF 1'870.–/month
CHF 1'200.–/month
3.6 kmCHF 2'200.–/month
CHF 1'530.–/month
5.3 kmCHF 1'570.–/month
