Peney
in Geneva of Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Noteable things around
Location Summary
Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
46.202 and 6.041 (Lat./Lng.)
Coordinates by Time:
N 46° 12' 6" and E 6° 2' 26"
Currency and Currency Code:
Franc - CHF
Spoken languages:
German, French, Italian, Romansh
Local electricity:
230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
Local Time: 02:33 PM (Friday)
Timezone: Europe/Zurich
UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
Sunrise and Sunset:
6:19 am and 7:01 pm
Antipode Coordinates:
-44.033 and -176.367 (Lat./Lng.)
Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Ouwenga
References
This place on Geonames.org
Current travel safety evaluation for Switzerland in Western Europe

Safety Score: 4,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to Switzerland.

Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Switzerland. Last Update: 2024-03-29 07:25:35

Touring Peney

Peney in Geneva (Canton of Geneva) is a town located in Switzerland about 84 mi (or 136 km) south-west of Bern, the country's capital place.

Time in Peney is now 02:33 PM (Friday). The local timezone is named Europe / Zurich with an UTC offset of one hour. We know of 12 airports nearby Peney, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in Switzerland is Geneva Cointrin International Airport in a distance of 4 mi (or 7 km), North-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).

There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in Switzerland is Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces in a distance of 39 mi (or 63 km), North-East. We collected 1 points of interest near this location. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.

Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, Chancy, Geneva, Gex and Saint-Claude. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.

Local weather forecast

Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 53 °F

Morning Temperature 3°C / 38 °F
Evening Temperature 13°C / 55 °F
Night Temperature 7°C / 45 °F
Chance of rainfall 0%
Air Humidity 71%
Air Pressure 1000 hPa
Wind Speed Light breeze with 3 km/h (2 mph) from West
Cloud Conditions Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky
General Conditions Overcast clouds

Saturday, 30th of March 2024

12°C (54 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Moderate rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.

Sunday, 31st of March 2024

13°C (56 °F)
9°C (49 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.

Monday, 1st of April 2024

9°C (49 °F)
6°C (43 °F)
Heavy intensity rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.

Hotels and Places to Stay

Moevenpick Hotel & Casino

Address
3,3 mi
Route de Pre-Bois 20,
1215 Geneve
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 14:00
Reception
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00


NH Geneva Airport

Address
2,8 mi
Avenue de Mategnin 21
1217 Meyrin
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 15:00
Reception
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00


Novotel Suites Genève Aéroport

Address
3,7 mi
Avenue Louis Casaï 30 COINTRIN
1216 GENEVE
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 14:00
Reception
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00


Novotel Genève Aéroport France

Address
4,0 mi
Chemin des Trois Noyers
01210 FERNEY VOLTAIRE
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 14:00
Reception
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00


Crowne Plaza GENEVA

Address
3,5 mi
Avenue Louis Casai 75-77
1216 GENEVA
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 14:00
Reception
Weekday: -
Weekend: closed


Nash Airport Hotel

Address
3,6 mi
11, Chemin De La Violette
1216 Geneve
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 15:00
Reception
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00


Domaine de Chateauvieux

Address
0,1 mi
Chemin de Châteauvieux 16
1242 Satigny
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 16:00
Reception
Weekday: 6:30 - 0:00
Weekend: 6:30 - 0:00


Aparthotel Adagio Genève Saint-Genis-Pouilly

Address
2,8 mi
67 Avenue du Mont Blanc
01710 THOIRY (GENEVA-AIRPORT)
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 11:00 - Checkin: 15:00
Reception
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00


Best Western Park Hotel Geneve-Thoiry (ex-Business Park) Résidence de Tourisme et Affaires

Address
2,9 mi
185 Avenue du Mont Blanc
01710 Thoiry
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 12:00 - Checkin: 15:00
Reception
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00


Savoie

Address
4,6 mi
Avenue Louis Armand 9
74160 St Julien en Genevois
Switzerland

Time Information

Checkout: 11:00 - Checkin: 16:00
Reception
Weekday: 7:00 - 21:00
Weekend: 7:30 - 21:00 (lunchbreak: 11:00 - 17:30)


Videos from this area

These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.

Peney, Bord du Rhône

Published: July 19, 2013
Length: 44:50 min
Rating: 0 of 5
Author: paoberson2

Vol au dessus de la région de Peney. Peney est un petit village dans la commune de Satigny, à l'ouest du canton de Genève. A cet endroit le Rhône forme un lac en raison du barrage de Verbois...


Renard, le 02-04-13

Published: April 02, 2013
Length: 21:26 min
Rating: 5 of 5
Author: Patrick Inchauspe

En train de rentrer d'une nuit de chasse.


VFR de Genève à Speyer

Published: September 17, 2012
Length: 17:43 min
Rating: 5 of 5
Author: HB9VAA

Déplacement à Speyer pour la visite du Musée de la technique. http://speyer.technik-museum.de/fr voir le trajet: ...


Fin de la vidange du barrage de Verbois 2012

Published: June 26, 2012
Length: 29:18 min
Rating: 5 of 5
Author: Patrick Inchauspe

Ouverture des portes de trop plein pour évacuer le limon le plus possible.


incendie d'une décharge à Peney / Vernier le 8 mai 2008

Published: May 09, 2008
Length: 14:56 min
Rating: 0 of 5
Author: driflaver

pour la 7ème fois depuis 2005, les stocks de déchets entreposés dans le dépôt de Serbeco à Peney, dans la commune de Vernier, ont entièrement brûlé, recouvrant d'un épais nuage le...


Vidange barrage de Verbois 2012

Published: June 10, 2012
Length: 51:19 min
Rating: 4 of 5
Author: 2007Marker

Après avoir été plusieurs fois reportée, et malgré la pluie de ces derniers jours, la vidange du barrage de Verbois va enfin pouvoir démarrer le samedi 9 juin. L'opération, qui dure...


Vidange du barrage de Verbois, Genève, 2012

Published: June 15, 2012
Length: 50:46 min
Rating: 3 of 5
Author: Patrick Inchauspe

Vidange du 09 et du 10 Juin 2012.


Côte de Verbois 2009 : la descente après la dernière course, ça chauffe ...

Published: October 18, 2009
Length: 08:35 min
Rating: 5 of 5
Author: Philippe Felgines

La descente de tous les pilotes après la dernière course, ils remercient les spectateurs en effectuants quelques burns .... Merci.


Vidange du barrage de Verbois et fin

Published: July 11, 2012
Length: 51:06 min
Rating: 5 of 5
Author: Patrick Inchauspe

Vidange et fin du nettoyage.


Le Rhone/Verbois vidangé, juin 2012

Published: June 14, 2012
Length: 34:19 min
Rating: 0 of 5
Author: Luzdemisojos

Le nettoyage du barrage de Verbois en Suisse sur le Rhône a eu por résultat une baisse remarquable du fleuve en amont du barrage. voir infos ici: http://www.sig-ge.ch/vidange2012/


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Attractions and noteworthy things

Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the Web), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

Located at 46.2325, 6.045 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
World Wide Web, 1989 introductions, English inventions, Human–computer interaction, Information Age

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, and considered "one of the great engineering milestones of mankind".

Located at 46.2333, 6.05 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
Large Hadron Collider, Buildings and structures in Ain, Buildings and structures in the canton of Geneva, E-Science, Particle physics facilities, Underground laboratories, Physics beyond the Standard Model

Super Proton Synchrotron

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, 6.9 kilometres in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva, Switzerland.

Located at 46.235, 6.0425 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
Particle physics facilities, CERN, Accelerator physics

Intersecting Storage Rings

The ISR (Intersecting Storage Rings) was a particle accelerator at CERN. It was the world's first hadron collider, and ran from 1971 to 1984, with a maximum center of mass energy of 62 GeV.

Located at 46.2347, 6.04306 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
Particle physics facilities, Particle experiments, CERN

Proton Synchrotron

The Proton Synchrotron (PS) is the first major particle accelerator at CERN, built as a 28 GeV proton accelerator in the late 1950s and put into operation in 1959. It takes the protons from the Proton Synchrotron Booster at a kinetic energy of 1.4 GeV and lead ions from the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) at 72 MeV per nucleon. It has been operated as an injector for the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR), the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP).

Located at 46.2319, 6.04861 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
Particle physics facilities, CERN

History of the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.

Located at 46.2325, 6.045 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
World Wide Web, History of the Internet

Antiproton Decelerator

The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) is a storage ring at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. It was built as a successor to the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) and started operation in the year 2000. The decelerated antiprotons are ejected to one of several connected experiments.

Located at 46.2339, 6.04639 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
Antimatter, CERN, Particle physics, Research projects, Particle experiments

Choully Castle

Choully Castle is a castle in the municipality of Satigny of the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Located at 46.2231, 6.02976 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Wikipedia Article
Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Geneva, Castles in Switzerland, Castles in the canton of Geneva

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