[altano]

There's no need for anecdotes as the data is published. Only ~1% of connections are missed: https://reporting.sbb.ch/punctuality?=&years=1,4,5,6,7&scrol...

~93% of trains are punctual with a VERY strict definition for punctual: within 3 minutes of the scheduled time.

If you experienced worse, you were in an unlucky minority of people.

[belter]

What your link shows is that train punctuality in 2022 was 92.5 %. That is shocking bad. Back in 2018 at least 10 countries were doing better than Switzerland.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255048/punctuality-regi...

[belter]

Here is a recent perspective.

[1] "Why Swiss trains are less punctual — and what is being done about it" - https://www.thelocal.ch/20220110/why-swiss-trains-are-less-p...

Once more a variation on how to lie with statistics... It does not matter if the overall statistics show a somewhat high value, mostly driven by predicable and frequent travels between Cantons in the mountains, where there is maybe just one track. What matters is the experience of the majority of commuters on urban centers. From [1] in 2022, the year of most recent statistics.

"The punctuality values in the last three months on some major intercity routes are below the threshold:

Zurich HB - Bern: 73.5 percent of on-time arrivals and departures

Lausanne - Geneva: 71.5 percent

Basel - Zurich: 67.5 percent

Zug - Zurich HB: 76.1 percent

Olten - Lucerne: 66.7 percent "

[panick21_]

But you are doing the same thing. Switzerland has a high standard of 3min is late. What actually important if you make your connections. In Switerland you make your connection like 98ish% of the time.

This article picks out some of the worst lines over a very short time period. You can do that in most networks. Some German ICE lines have 23% on time.

I ride some of those city to city pairs and those numbers don't line up with my experiance over the last couple years.

[RealStickman_]

I'm not sure how Statista got their info, but most other countries define "late" as being more than 5 minutes behind schedule. In Switzeland that limit is lower with only 3 minutes not counting as late.

[eep_social]

Can’t tell from that link but historically the Swiss punctuality standard is three minutes where other countries use five or more, Japan being the notable exception.