Finhaut is a municipality in the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[4] The municipality is located in the Saint-Maurice district, in the upper Trient valley on the French border.

Lac d'Émosson is a reservoir (of the Émosson Dam) partially located in the municipality.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Castle Argent embattled with three towers windowed Sable middle one roofed in chief two Arrows Or in saltire.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (308 or 96.9%) as their first language, German is the second most common (6 or 1.9%) and Italian is the third (2 or 0.6%).

[4] The entire Finhaut area is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 178 votes were cast, of which 12 or about 6.7% were invalid.

[4] There were 157 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.1% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 9 or 11.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 24 or 30.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 25 or 32.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 5.1% were in education.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 275 or 86.5% were Roman Catholic, while 14 or 4.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.