Fieschertal is a village and municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Besides the village of Fieschertal, the municipality includes the nearby hamlets of Wichul, Zer Flie and Wirbul.

[3] The village of Fieschertal is located in the valley of the Wysswasser, a tributary of the Rhone that drains the Fiescher glacier.

The mountains of the Jungfrau, Mönch, Fiescherhorn, Agassizhorn, Finsteraarhorn, Oberaarhorn, Wasenhorn, Grunhorn, Wannenhorn, Eggishorn, Aletschhorn, Mittaghorn and Gletscherhorn are all either within or on the boundary of the municipality, as is the Märjelen lake.

The Jungfraujoch, with the Top of Europe tourist attraction, lies just inside the northern boundary of the municipality, but access is exclusively from communities to the north.

[5] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (251 or 98.4%) as their first language, Dutch is the second-most common (2 or 0.8%) and French and Italian[9] are the third (1 or 0.4% each).

[5] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 51.42% of the vote.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 17, of which 8 were in agriculture and 9 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 4 or 3.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 54 or 41.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 63 or 48.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 2.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 2 or 1.5% were in education.

[18] Some 18 kilometres (11 mi) to the north-west of Fieschertal village, the Jungfraujoch terminus of the Jungfrau railway lies just inside the municipal border.

The area between the two, and most of the rest of the municipality, is devoid of any roads or other developed transport modes.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 240 (or 94.1%) were Roman Catholic, while four (or 1.6%) belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The wettest month is October during which time Fieschertal receives an average of 98 mm (3.9 in) of rain or snow.

The driest month of the year is July with an average of 57 mm (2.2 in) of precipitation over 8.2 days.