The crystal structures of the room and the high temperature modifications of cesium trifluoromethyl sulfonate were solved from high resolution X-ray powder diffraction data. At room temperature, α-CsSO 3 CF 3 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2 1 with lattice parameters a ϭ 9.7406(2) Å , b ϭ 6.1640(1) Å , c ϭ 5.4798(1) Å , and β ϭ 104.998(1)°; Z ϭ 2. At temperatures above T ϭ 380 K, a second order phase transformation towards a disordered C-centered orthorhombic phase in space group Cmcm occurs with lattice parameters at T ϭ 492 K of a ϭ 5.5074(3) Å , b ϭ 19.4346(14) Å , and c ϭ 6.2978(4) Å ; Z ϭ 4. Within the crystal structures, the triflate anions are arranged in double layers with the apolar CF 3 -groups pointing towards each other. The cesium ions are located between the SO 3 -groups. CsSO 3 CF 3 shows a specific ion conductivity ranging from σ ϭ 1.06·10 Ϫ8 Scm Ϫ1 at T ϭ 393 K to σ ϭ 5.18·10 Ϫ4 Scm Ϫ1 at T ϭ 519 K.