The municipality had been settled even earlier, however, because the name Weggis comes from the Celtic and meant Place of the Ferrymen.

In 2005, the project of combining the three municipalities around Mount Rigi in Canton Lucerne was delayed indefinitely.

The town has a famously mild climate and is well known for the numerous southern plants (chestnut trees, palms, grapes and orchids) that thrive there.

The town of Weggis lies on a south-facing plain on the shore of Lake Lucerne.

On the municipal border with Vitznau, 1.9 km (1.2 mi) south-east of the town, another quasi-community has developed.

High up the slope, accessible by cog railway and aerial tramway, lies the community of Rigi Kaltbad (2.8 km (1.7 mi) north-east of the town, elev.

With the exception of the Herrenwald, north of Hertenstein, the western and central portions of the municipality are unforested.

The municipal border runs north for 1000 meters of elevation gain from west Unterwilen (in Vitznau) on Lake Lucerne, up to Rigi-First (in Canton Schwyz).

Of the rest of the land, 14% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Of the settled areas, 9.14% is covered with buildings, 0.08% is industrial, 0.17% is classed as special developments, 0.85% is parks or greenbelts and 3.81% is transportation infrastructure.

[4] Weggis borders Küssnacht and Greppen to the north, Arth in Canton Schwyz to the north-east, Vitznau in the east and south-east, and Lake Lucerne.

Since then the population has grown very much because of the municipality's good location and the local hotel management school's [1] high enrollment.

One unique population characteristic is the fact that over 200 Chinese (mostly from the Shanghai region) who are studying at the hotel management school, live in Weggis.

The population uses a dialect of High Alemannic (or Swiss) German as their everyday language.

This has been changed by people leaving the church, and by immigration from other parts of Switzerland, and from foreign countries.

59.98% are Roman Catholic, 16.7% are Protestant, and 1.66% are Eastern Orthodox Christians; 10.01% are atheist, 1.99% are Muslim and 8.96% provided no information about their beliefs.

The Eastern Orthodox Christians and Muslims are almost entirely people from the former Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia) Of the 3927 inhabitants at the end of 2004, 3141 were Swiss and 786 (or 20%) were foreigners.

The largest immigrant groups come from China, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro (mostly Albania), Portugal, Italy, Austria and United Kingdom.

It is served by ships and buses belonging to the Lake Lucerne Navigation Company at the Weggis landing stage.