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Geneva jet d’eau

Geneva’s Jet D’eau is the main tourist attraction of the Swiss city and is known worldwide. It attracts many visitors who come to admire its white plume.

Higher than the Statue of Liberty, the city’s emblem was born from a manoeuvre by the craftsmen of the time, who sought to evacuate the excess pressure in the hydraulic pumps of the Coulouvrenière factory. A valve was created for this excess pressure: a 30 m jet of water was born.

Aware of the tourist interest of this jet, the city of Geneva decided to create another one at the end of the Eaux-Vives pier, in the heart of the harbour. It was inaugurated in 1891 on the occasion of the Federal Gymnastics Festival and reached a height of 90 metres. It was not until 1951 and the creation of an autonomous pumping station that the Jet D’eau reached its current size of 140 m with a water outlet speed of 200 km/h.

Today, it has been transformed into a real tourist attraction, envied by cities all over the world such as Seoul, which inaugurated one in 2002 on the occasion of the football World Cup, or Jeddah, which built the largest Jet D’eau in the world in 1985, reaching 312 m.

Since 2003, the Jet D’eau has been in operation all year round to the delight of locals and tourists alike. It is regularly illuminated in various colours on different days and special celebrations.

Practical information

Dates and times of operation of the Jet D’eau

• From 2 May to 11 September 2022: from 9.00 am to 11.15 pm (with illumination)
• From 12 September to 30 October 2022: Monday to Thursday, from 10.00 am to sunset (10.30 pm with illumination on request) / Friday to Sunday, from 10.00 am to 10.30 pm (with illumination)
• From 31 October to 16 November 2022: shutdown of the Jet D’eau for maintenance work
• From 17 November to 31 December 2022: from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm (10.30 pm with illumination on request)

Timetable subject to change