St. Moritz

This article is about the town in Switzerland. For other uses, see St. Moritz (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Saint-Maurice, Switzerland.

St. Moritz
Municipality
Winter night in St. Moritz St. Moritz on an evening in February 2009, with the frozen lake
Flag Coat of arms
Location of St. Moritz
St. Moritz Location within Switzerland St. Moritz Location within Canton of Grisons
Coordinates: 46°29′50″N 9°50′16″E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Grisons
District	Maloja
Government
• Mayor	Christian Jott Jenny Ind. (as of 1 January 2019)
Area
• Total	28.69 km2 (11.08 sq mi)
Elevation (Traunter Plazzas)	1,822 m (5,978 ft)
Population  (December 2020)
• Total	4,945
• Density	172.4/km2 (446.4/sq mi)
Demonym	German: St. Moritzer(in)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	7500
SFOS number	3787
ISO 3166 code	CH-GR
Localities	St. Moritz-Dorf, St. Moritz-Bad, Suvretta, Champfèr (eastern part)
Surrounded by	Bever, Celerina/Schlarigna, Samedan, Silvaplana
Website	www.gemeinde-stmoritz.ch

St. Moritz is a municipality and a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about 1,800 metres (5,910 ft) above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in the administrative region of Maloja in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.

St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair (3,056 m or 10,026 ft) overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and Lake St. Moritz. It hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948.