📜Rules
- ✗Vaud: no kiting inside yellow-buoy zones, within 100 m of ports and landing stages, or in federal bird reserves. lexfind.ch
- ✗Bird reserves with kite ban: Les Grangettes (Villeneuve - Rhône mouth - Le Bouveret), Pointe de Promenthoux, right shore of the Petit-Lac (near Coppet). kitesurfclub.ch
- iKeep 200 m from passenger and cargo boats; communes may set official kite launch corridors. lexfind.ch
💨Wind
🔥 Thermal: Mostly Bise / Vaudaire / Joran; the day breezes (rebat, séchard) are light, the séchard never reaches the Haut-Lac. Usually from NNW, strongest around 14:00.
FoilFlow checks the thermal conditions every day (sun strength, wind aloft, Föhn, Bise and the lake's own pressure rules) and shows when it is likely.
Forecasts from several weather models (e.g. ICON, AROME, HARMONIE) and live measuring stations nearby are in the app.
💡Good to know
- wind: Vaudaire · launch at the water sports base between Camping Rive Bleue and the Stockalper canal; narrow launch; Haut-Lac protected zone closed 1 Oct - 31 Mar; liability insurance mandatory
- Vaudaire wind; launch at the water sports base between Camping Rive Bleue and the Stockalper canal (narrow)
🧭Getting there
📍 Position on the water: 46.4070, 6.8371 · directions
🅿️ Car parks
🗺️Spots nearby
Spot sources: elevatesurf.ch · leman-sans-frontiere.org · elevatesurf.ch