Abstract. We present the first high-resolution (500 m × 500 m) gridded methane (CH₄) emission inventory for Switzerland, which integrates 90 % of the national emission totals reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and recent CH₄ flux studies conducted by research groups across Switzerland. In addition to anthropogenic emissions, we also include natural and semi-natural CH₄ fluxes, i.e., emissions from lakes and reservoirs, wetlands, wild animals as well as uptake by forest soils. National CH₄ emissions were disaggregated using detailed geostatistical information on source locations and their spatial extent and process- or area-specific emission factors. In Switzerland, the highest CH₄ emissions in 2011 originated from the agricultural sector (150 Gg CH₄ yr⁻¹), mainly produced by ruminants and manure management, followed by emissions from waste management (15 Gg CH₄ yr⁻¹) mainly from landfills and the energy sector (12 Gg CH₄ yr⁻¹), which was dominated by emissions from natural gas distribution. Compared with the anthropogenic sources, emissions from natural and semi-natural sources were relatively small (6 Gg CH₄ yr⁻¹), making up only 3% of the total emissions in Switzerland. CH₄ fluxes from agricultural soils were estimated to be not significantly different from zero (between −1.5 and 0 Gg CH₄ yr⁻¹), while forest soils are a CH₄ sink (approx. −2.8 Gg CH₄ yr⁻¹), partially offsetting other natural emissions. Estimates of uncertainties are provided for the different sources, including an estimate of spatial disaggregation errors deduced from a comparison with a global (EDGAR v4.2) and an European (TNO/MACC) CH₄ inventory. This new spatially explicit emission inventory for Switzerland will provide valuable input for regional-scale atmospheric modeling and inverse source estimation.