For the first five months of the year, Vögele participated in several WTA Tour events, needing to play through the qualifying rounds of most tournaments.

[3] In June, Vögele played in Birmingham, defeating seeded Ekaterina Makarova en route to a quarterfinal showing.

Playing as a wildcard at Dubai, Vögele upset 15th seed Nadia Petrova in the first round[8] and was defeated in the second by Russian qualifier Regina Kulikova.

[11] Staying in Spain to play at the Barcelona Open, Vögele was defeated in the first round by wildcard Arantxa Parra Santonja.

She began the season at Brisbane where she defeated Australian wildcard Sally Peers in the first round of qualifying, and in the second Akgul Amanmuradova.

[12] As the 20th seed, Vögele qualified for the Australian Open by defeating Lara Arruabarrena, Mihaela Buzărnescu, and Michelle Larcher de Brito.

However, in doubles, Vögele and her partner Mandy Minella reached the final where they lost to top seeds Eva Birnerová/Alexandra Panova, 2–6, 2–6.

Seeded eighth for qualifying at Wimbledon, Vögele defeated Grace Min in the first round and in the second, she lost to Kristýna Plíšková in three sets.

At the Ladies Linz, Vögele beat Malek in the first round of qualifying, but in the second she lost to top seed Irina-Camelia Begu.

[24] Vögele qualified for the Paris Indoors by defeating eighth seed Mandy Minella, Stéphanie Foretz, and Monica Puig.

After winning her first-round match over Tsvetana Pironkova, she lost in the second round to second seed and 2011 Open GdF Suez champion, Petra Kvitová.

[25] Vögele reached the semifinals of the U.S. Indoor Championships by defeating Sílvia Soler Espinosa, qualifier Claire Feuerstein, and fourth seed Heather Watson.

[30] Vögele began her clay-court season at Charleston where she started off the tournament by defeating qualifier Teliana Pereira in the first round.

[34] Playing against Australia at the 2013 Fed Cup World Group play-offs, Vögele lost both of her rubbers to Ashleigh Barty and Samantha Stosur.

[40] Vögele began her grass-court season at the Rosmalen Open where she defeated qualifier Yulia Putintseva, before losing in the second round to lucky loser Lesia Tsurenko.

[45] Vögele reached her third semifinal of the year at the Ladies Linz by defeating Klára Zakopalová, Karin Knapp, and second seed Sloane Stephens.

[57] Vögele then played at the Gastein Ladies where she defeated Julia Görges,[58] and in the second round, she upset fifth seed Elina Svitolina, 6–2, 7–5.

[68] Vögele played at the Sydney International where she defeated Australian wildcard Arina Rodionova in the first round of qualifying, 6–2, 6–3, before losing to Lesia Tsurenko.

Seeded seventh for qualifying at the Pan Pacific Open, Vögele defeated Junri Namigata but lost to Misa Eguchi.

At the Tashkent Open, she qualified for the main draw by defeating wildcard Vlada Ekshibarova and eighth seed Ekaterina Bychkova.

Vögele began the year at the Shenzhen Open where she lost in the final round of qualifying to eighth seed Zhang Kailin.

However, due to Magda Linette pulling out of the tournament because of gastrointestinal illness, Vögele entered the main draw as a lucky loser.

[85] Competing at the first edition of the Taiwan Open, Vögele made it to the quarterfinal round where she retired against third seed Yulia Putintseva due to dizziness.

[91] Beginning her clay-court season in Turkey at the İstanbul Cup, Vögele reached her first semifinal of the year where she lost to eventual champion Çağla Büyükakçay.

[94] In Croatia at the Bol Open, Vögele made it to the quarterfinal round where she lost to fourth seed Nao Hibino.

[106] Vögele played at the Thailand Open where she was defeated in the first round by sixth seed and eventual finalist Ajla Tomljanović.

Making it past qualifying at the Indian Wells Open, she stunned fourth seed, Sloane Stephens, in the second round.

[115] As the top seed at the Torneo Internazionale Antico Tiro a Volo in Rome, she was defeated in the first round by Italian Jessica Pieri.

[130] At the first edition of the MUSC Health Women's Open, she lost in the first round to top seed and eventual finalist, Ons Jabeur.

[138] Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.