Liechtenstein by campervan: sleeping and camping

Where you may legally sleep in a campervan in Liechtenstein: parking, camping, campsites, stopovers and possible fines. What to know before you go.

Published 18 September 2026Last checked 18 September 2026

Currency
Swiss franc
CHF, not the euro. 0.9462 francs to €1 on 18 September 2026
Language
German
Spoken locally as an Alemannic dialect
Driving
Right
50 km/h in towns, 80 km/h outside. No motorways at all
Power
230V, type J
The Swiss three-pin socket. A type F plug will not fit
VAT
8.1 percent
2.6 percent on food, 3.8 percent on a bed for the night
Emergency
112
Police 117, fire 118, ambulance 144

Sleeping

Liechtenstein has no national camping act. Nothing in the road traffic act, the nature protection act or the building act prohibits sleeping in a vehicle as such, and there is no equivalent of the camping statutes the Austrian states have. What exists instead is the commune. The Gemeindegesetz puts the local police under the Gemeindevorsteher and lets him fine people under local police rules, so the answer changes at the village sign.

A white campervan parked on gravel beside a meadow below steep alpine slopes — There is one campsite in the country. Everything else depends on which commune you are in

Sound footing

A pitch at Camping Mittagsspitze in Triesen, which is open almost all year
A signed motorhome parking place, where one exists and says overnight is allowed
A commune car park with no sign against it, for a normal daytime stop
Sleeping in the vehicle with nothing deployed outside, where no commune rule bans it

Asking for trouble

Wild camping anywhere in Schaan, expressly prohibited, fine to CHF 2,000
Chairs, a table, an awning or levelling legs out on public land
Parking on a main road outside a built up area, prohibited by the road rules
Returning to the same public parking place night after night without the commune's permission
Setting up on farmland or open ground outside the building zone

The instruments, and what each one says

The Gemeindegesetz, the communes act. The Gemeindevorsteher heads the local police, is responsible for peace, safety and order, makes the orders needed for it and imposes fines under statutory or local police rules.
Schaan's peace, safety and order ordinance. Wild camping is prohibited. Use of communal public land beyond ordinary common use needs a permit. The penalty is a police fine up to CHF 2,000, or a reprimand in a minor case.

Who to ask, and what this page could not establish

There are eleven communes: Vaduz, Triesen, Balzers, Triesenberg, Schaan and Planken in the Oberland, and Eschen, Mauren, Gamprin, Ruggell and Schellenberg in the Unterland.
Only Schaan's ordinance was found published. Vaduz publishes two police documents and neither mentions camping. Triesen's and Eschen's published lists contain no equivalent instrument. Triesenberg, which contains Malbun, does not serve its ordinance list to anything but a browser.

Where you can sleep

Option	What you get	What to know
Camping Mittagsspitze, Triesen	The country's campsite. Pitches, heated sanitary block, grey water and chemical toilet points, restaurant, pool in summer, shop.	Open all year except roughly 22 December to 1 March. Winter is 7 hardstanding pitches with 6 A electricity, booked and paid online in advance. Prices are only in its booking system.
Stellplatz Malbun	The official tourism site lists a motorhome place in Malbun under its single Campingplatz heading.	Its page is behind a bot check and could not be read, so this page carries no pitch count, price or season for it. Confirm before you drive up.
A commune car park	Ordinary parking, CHF 1.50 an hour in Vaduz and Schaan, first hour free.	Fine for the day. Overnight depends entirely on the commune and on what the sign says.
Over the border	Sites and motorhome places in the Swiss Rheintal and in Vorarlberg, both within 20 minutes.	The realistic answer for most trips. The country is 25 km long, so basing outside it costs almost nothing in driving.

What the published maximums are

Wild camping in Schaan, police fineup to CHF 2,000
Unpermitted works outside the building zoneup to CHF 50,000

The two bars are not the same thing. The CHF 2,000 is what a commune police fine for wild camping can reach in Schaan. The CHF 50,000 is the nature protection act's ceiling for carrying out unpermitted works outside the building zone, which is what laying out a pitch or a hardstanding would be, not what one night in a van is. No source publishes how often either is used.

Almost everyone who comes here comes for the day. The national statistics office records 94,598 arrivals and 174,710 overnight stays across 29 hotels and guest houses in 2023, with an average stay of 1.8 nights, and says outright that most visitors are day visitors. A van that treats Liechtenstein as a stop between Switzerland and Austria is doing what the country is set up for.