Lake Geneva Chillon - Geneva — Switzerland · France

Length of Lake Geneva

63.5 km
Distance
Chillon Castle ↔ Bains des Pâquis, Geneva
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Chillon Castle ↔ Bains des Pâquis, Geneva: 63.5 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 89 crossings by swimmers from 10 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Lake Geneva Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.