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Overnight stays in nature in the canton of Geneva

1 of 45 municipalities individually documented

In the canton of Geneva, the municipality decides: Of 1 municipalities looked up, 1 prohibits tent camping.

Cantonal: no general rule

What the canton itself regulates
Tentunclear
Bivouacunclear
Car / camperunclear

What this means

Genf kennt keine allgemeine kantonale Regelung zum Campieren oder Biwakieren. Gesucht wurde zweimal: im gesamten schweizerischen Kantonsrecht über lexfind.ch mit den Begriffen «campieren», «kampieren», «biwakieren», «camping sauvage», «bivouaquer» und, nach dem Waadtländer Fund, erneut mit «camping». Das Genfer Campingreglement vom 28.06.2017 (RCamp, L 5 05.20) regelt nur den Betrieb von Campingplätzen und nimmt Lager bis 21 Tage von seinem Geltungsbereich aus — eine Erlaubnis zum Übernachten im Freien spricht es nicht aus. Über das Übernachten im Freien entscheidet in diesem Kanton deshalb die Gemeinde. Was die Karte dazu weiss, steht bei der Gemeindefläche.

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Geneva does not have a general cantonal regulation on camping or bivouacking. The search was carried out twice: in the entire Swiss cantonal law on lexfind.ch with the terms "camping", "camping", "bivouacking", "camping sauvage", "bivouaquer" and, after the Vaud find, again with "camping". The Geneva Camping Regulations of 28.06.2017 (RCamp, L 5 05.20) only regulate the operation of campsites and exclude camps for up to 21 days from its area of validity — it does not issue a permit to spend the night outdoors. In this canton, the municipality therefore decides on overnight stays outdoors. What the map knows about this can be found in the municipal area.

Machine-translated, may be inaccurate — the original wording is authoritative.

Source & status
Volltextsuche im Kantonsrecht über lexfind.ch, zweimal mit verschiedenen Begriffen; dazu das Campingreglement (RCamp, L 5 05.20) gelesen · Original document
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Municipalities with their own information

Outside protected areas, the municipality decides. For this one, its regulations have been looked up.

Tent camping in the one municipality looked up
Prohibited1

Veyrier

For the remaining 44 municipalities of the canton, nothing has been researched yet. The map therefore leaves them unfilled and shows the municipality's contact instead — no entry never means “allowed”.

Not yet looked up

These municipalities of the canton do not have their own entry yet. They are listed here anyway, because the answer “nothing is regulated at cantonal level for Geneva, and nothing has been looked up for your municipality yet” is an answer — and because the map holds the contact of each municipality.

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