📜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 SSW, strongest around 20:00.
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: Bise / Vaudaire wind swell
🧭Getting there
📍 Position on the water: 46.4837, 6.6740 · directions
🅿️ Car parks
- P1Car park, free2130 m to the spotroute
- P2Parking de la Combe, car park, paid2370 m to the spotroute
- P3Car park, free2430 m to the spotroute
- P4Car park, free2440 m to the spotroute
- P5Car park, free2470 m to the spotroute
- P6Parking de la Possession, underground car park, paid2350 m to the spotroute
- P7Car park, free2380 m to the spotroute
- P8Car park, free2490 m to the spotroute
🗺️Spots nearby
Spot sources: surf-rockets.de · leman-sans-frontiere.org · elevatesurf.ch