On-duty pharmacies in Switzerland and the Italian border: sources by canton

Context

In brief

• Perimeter: Ticino and Italian provinces CO, VA and VB.
• Ticino directory: 207 records from the official list.
• Italian directory: 542 records filtered to the three border provinces.
• Verified duty: regional sources for Mendrisiotto, Luganese, Bellinzonese, Biasca e Valli, Locarnese.

A guide to checking the current source in the right canton, without inventing calendars or turning a link into an opening promise.

Operational details

What is verified and what is not

The verified duty data published by our dataset concerns five Ticino regions: Mendrisiotto, Luganese, Bellinzonese, Biasca e Valli and Locarnese. Locarnese uses a regional association source; for other cantons we provide navigable official links where available, but publish no unified roster, active coverage or inferred hours.

Open the cantonal or provincial source before travelling, follow its published instructions and call the pharmacy. Where a source exposes no public feed or roster, the guide says so rather than filling the gap with assumptions.

Directory, opening hours and duty: three different data points

• directory: A directory record means that the official catalogue contains the entry; it does not mean that the pharmacy is open now.
• opening hours: Opening hours are shown only when the page or source publishes them; they are not inferred from the directory or its timestamp.
• verified duty: Verified duty means a regional interval published by OFCT or the relevant association source; it is not the same as continuous opening. Check by phone before travelling.

Key points

Scope, sources and timestamp

This guide uses separate snapshots: a Ticino address directory, a filtered Italian directory and a regional duty dataset (OFCT and the Locarnese association source). The sources are not merged into one opening status.

• Official Ticino pharmacy list: 207 records, retrieved at 2026-09-14T10:03:57.824Z. official list
• Official Italian dataset filtered to provinces CO, VA and VB: 542 records, retrieved at 2026-09-14T10:03:57.824Z. Ministry of Health dataset
• Regional sources for Ticino duty coverage: areas Mendrisiotto, Luganese, Bellinzonese, Biasca e Valli, Locarnese, retrieved at 2026-09-15T09:40:29.571Z. OFCT source

Latest snapshot retrieval: directories 2026-09-14T10:03:57.824Z; duty 2026-09-15T09:40:29.571Z. The timestamp records when the source snapshot was retrieved; it is not an opening time and does not prove that a pharmacy is open now.

This is not nationwide coverage: the perimeter is limited to Ticino and the Italian provinces CO, VA and VB. Locarnese is included as the fifth duty region through the regional association source farmacielocarnese.ch. Its interval is published only after a unique match with the cantonal directory; the source does not replace the directory. For Locarnese: regional association source farmacielocarnese.ch; the parser publishes an interval only after a unique Farmacia-and-locality match with the cantonal directory and copies no address from the source. No Italian on-duty claim is made: the Italian catalogue is an address directory and does not prove that a pharmacy is open or on duty.

Official sources and useful routes

• pharmacy hub
• Ticino directory
• Italian provinces directory
• on-duty pharmacies
• regional sources by area: Mendrisiotto, Luganese, Bellinzonese, Biasca e Valli, Locarnese

For a specific case, open the local route, read the available record and contact the pharmacy: a static directory does not replace direct confirmation.

Switzerland: how to check the current source by canton

These are navigable official or cantonal pharmacists’ association links. Open them when needed: they may offer a search, daily plan, contact or notice, but this guide does not turn them into one calendar and does not promise an opening time or an open pharmacy.

• ZH — Zurich
• BE — Bern
• LU — Lucerne
• UR — Uri
• SZ — Schwyz
• ZG — Zug
• SO — Solothurn
• BS — Basel-Stadt
• AG — Aargau
• TG — Thurgau
• GR — Graubünden
• VS — Valais
• FR — Fribourg
• NE — Neuchâtel
• JU — Jura
• VD — Vaud
• GE — Geneva

For Ticino, we publish verified duty data for the five regions Mendrisiotto, Luganese, Bellinzonese, Biasca e Valli and Locarnese; we infer no coverage for any other area.

For SZ (Schwyz), the navigable link above is available, but this guide does not treat it as a public roster or duty feed: we make no active-coverage or hours claim.

OW (Obwalden), NW (Nidwalden), GL (Glarus), AR (Appenzell Ausserrhoden), AI (Appenzell Innerrhoden), BL (Basel-Landschaft), SH (Schaffhausen) and SG (St. Gallen): this guide represents no public roster or verified feed. We make no active-coverage claim; contact the local pharmacy or cantonal health authority. For a medical emergency, call 144.

Italian border (CO, VA, VB): consult the local sources directly. Documents may change or expire; we infer no duty or opening time from their presence.

• ATS Insubria
• Varese (portale turni Federfarma Lombardia)
• Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (documento turni) — annual document, edition 2026: check the current version before use
• Farmacia Aperta

Farmacia Aperta is an external orientation link, not an official source or evidence of opening or duty.