📜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 15:00.
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 · kitesurfing banned in Les Grangettes nature reserve (Noville) - know the boundary
- Vaudaire at full strength
🧭Getting there
📍 Position on the water: 46.4156, 6.8951 · directions
🅿️ Car parks
🗺️Spots nearby
Spot sources: elevatesurf.ch · leman-sans-frontiere.org · elevatesurf.ch