Montreux

Montreux
Municipality
City center of Montreux with Lake Geneva and the Alps in the background
Coat of arms
Location of Montreux
Montreux Show map of Switzerland Montreux Show map of Canton of Vaud
Coordinates: 46°26′N 6°55′E / 46.433°N 6.917°E / 46.433; 6.917
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Vaud
District	Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut
Government
• Executive	Municipalité with 7 members
• Mayor	Syndic (list) Laurent Wehrli FDP/PRD/PLR (as of February 2014)
• Parliament	Conseil communal with 100 members
Area [1]
• Total	33.41 km2 (12.90 sq mi)
Elevation	390 m (1,280 ft)
Population  (31 December 2018)[2]
• Total	25,984
• Density	780/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	1820
SFOS number	5886
Localities	Baugy, Brent, Caux, Chailly-sur-Montreux, Chamby, Chaulin, Chêne, Chernex, Clarens, Collonge, Cornaux, Crin, Fontanivent, Glion, Jor, Le Châtelard, Les Avants, Les Planches, Mont-Fleuri, Pallens, Pertit, Planchamp, Sonzier, Tavel, Territet, Vernex, Villard-sur-Chamby and Vuarennes
Surrounded by	Villeneuve, Blonay, Haut-Intyamon, La Tour-de-Peilz, Noville, Veytaux
Twin towns	Wiesbaden (Germany), Menton (France), Chiba City (Japan)
Website	www.montreux.ch Profile (in French), SFSO statistics

Montreux (mɔ̃tʁø) is a municipality in Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.^[3]

It is on Lake Geneva shoreline at the foot of the Alps and has a population, as of December 2020^[update], of 26,090^[4] and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.^[5]

The Montreux Jazz Festival, annually in July since 1967.

In 1990, the Wakker Prize was awarded to Montreux.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
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3. ↑ Description and characteristics of Montreux
4. ↑ "Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit". bfs.admin.ch (in German). Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
5. ↑ "Montreux Riviera website". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2018-07-12.