Event Afterwork
Green Summer in Geneva 2024
This summer, various environmental and nature-themed activities are taking place in Geneva. This page offers a list of suggestions on exhibitions, workshops, shows, contests, outdoor activities, online resources and tips to stay refreshed and healthy for a green summer in Geneva.
Exhibitions and Guided Visits
Les plantes qui soignent les femmes
18 June 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
International Year of Camelids 2024 Exhibition at the Palais des Nations
24-28 June 2024 | Palais des Nations, Bar Serpent
Reconnaître et identifier les plantes toxiques de nos jardins
2 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
La Nuit de la Science
6 – 7 July 2024 | Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle
A chocolate memory: children's discovery tour
7 July 2024 | Musée d’ethnographie de Genève
BOTANICA 2024 - Plants for Our Future
Until 7 July 2024 | Conservatory and Botanical Garden
Simone Vautier ou la carrière fulgurante d’une femme passionnée de botanique au XXème siècle
9 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Si tout va bien, la forêt tropicale se répand !
16 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Le laboratoire de botanique moléculaire
30 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Sur les traces de Georges Reuter, apprenons à connaitre les plantes de notre canton
13 August 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Voyage au Maghreb : dédicaces des plantes d'Afrique du Nord
20 August 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Soirée officielle de l’exposition photos « Coraux de mer Rouge »
21 August 2024 | Club Diplomatique de Genève
Patricia Geissler, une bryologue de renommée internationale au service de la science
3 September 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Les Characées : un monde submergé fascinant et aujourd’hui menacé
17 September 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique
Les forêts sous-lacustres
Until 20 September 2024 | Espace Léman
VÉLO | ÉQUILIBRES EN MOUVEMENT
Until 13 October 2024 | Musée Rath
Collector
Until 20 November 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques
L'oiseau bleu
Until December 2024 | Palais des Nations
Dialogues insolites
Until December 2024 | Ville de Genève
Janus au Bioparc
Until January 2025 | Bioparc
Green Areas and Activities to Refresh from the Heat
Îlots de fraîcheur en ville
Until 31 August 2024 | Seven micro-oasis where to repair from the sun and refresh during the summer are located in:
Pâquis (rue du Léman)
Grottes (rue de la Faucille)
Acacias (rue du Grand-Bureau)
Eaux-Vives (rue de Montchoisy)
Ge-Soif Application
The GE-Soif app allows to identify fresh drinking water fountains
Where to go Swimming in Geneva?
Map of public swimming areas in Geneva
Cool breeze: Operation Heatwave at MEG
21 June – 30 August 2024 | Musée d’ethnographie de Genève
Outdoor Activities
L'été au Jardin
10 June – 10 September 2024 | Jardin botanique alpin de Meyrin
Balade: reconnaître et attirer les oiseaux ?
19 June 2024 | Cimetière des Rois
Sentier culturel : art contemporain
20 June 2024 | Espace de quartier Plainpalais
A la recherche des hirondelles genevoises
20 June 2024 | Patinoire des Vernets
Balade à vélo "cyclocryptique"
29 June 2024 | Musée Rath
Tour à bi-cycle-ttes d'époque
7 July2024 | Musée Rath
Rallye Gourmand sur le thème de l'Inde
10, 11 August 2024 | Ecole Robert-Hainard in Bernex
Éveils du Léman | Sortie artistique
16 August 2024 | Association pour la sauvegard du Léman
La nuit des chauves-souris 2024
23 August 2024 | Parc des Evaux/Onex
Éveil du Léman | Destination nature
31 August 2024 | Association pour la sauvegard du Léman
Voyage à Jaman
31 August 2024 | Groupe Ornithologique du Bassin Genevois
Soirée chauves-souris
6 September 2024 | Pont de Lully, Bernex
Un été à la Canopée
Until 8 September 2024 | Free sport classes | Canopée Quai Gustave Ador
Araignées, tisseuses acharnées
14 September 2024 | Centre Nature du Vallon de l’Allondon
Grand Nettoyage Clean up Day
14 September 2024 | Carouge
Vélotour des Arbres d'Onex
14 September 2024 | Onex
32ème Edition du Nettoyage Annuel du Lac
14-15 September 2024 | Bains des Pâquis
Fête du sport
14-15 September | Parc des Bastions et en Vieille-Ville
Visite au potager
20 September |Parc des Evaux
De parc en parc avec les Bibliothèques municipales
The municipal libraries allow you to discover various parks through cultural activities. From 2 to 13 July in Parc Baud-Bovy and from 6 to 27 July in Parc Beaulieu.
Excursions | La Libellule
Guided Excursions | La Libellule
Sentier climatique: un parcours didactique en 11 étapes
Learn about climate change in the 11 stops of the climate path designed by the City of Geneva
Nature - Que Faire?
Dans Ma Nature
The platform dansmaNature.ch aims to increase public awareness of biodiversity. A collaborative work by the Canton of Geneva and local associations and institutions, the platform brings together all the activities organized in Geneva, including excursions and nature-friendly outings.
Bioparc Genève
The Bioparc offers a wide range of activities for young and old alike. You can discover animals from near and far, learn more about the biology of species and how to help preserve them, all while having fun. By taking part in these activities, you directly support the Bioparc’s missions of awareness-raising, conservation and zootherapy.
WWF Suisse Sorties Nature
WWF Switzerland
Nature actions, hikes, lectures and training courses for young and old throughout Switzerland. Thanks to WWF Events, you can discover nature from a different angle, see its beauty with new eyes, experience it more intensely and learn more about the careful management of its resources. All offers are accompanied by professionals.
Pro Natura Genève
Pro Natura Genève
Pro Natura is the oldest organization for the protection of nature in Switzerland. Since 1928 in Geneva, it offers various types of activities for both adults and children to cultivate their relationship with nature and to teach how to preserve it.
Parks in Geneva
Parks in Geneva
There are more tham 40,000 trees in Geneva. The educational app of Parcs Genève invites the public to discover around 300 trees on self-guided walks. These trees have particular characteristics that make them essential to the city’s tree heritage.
Walks and bike rides in Geneva
Walks and Bike Rides in Geneva
Discover Geneva on foot or by bike thanks to a series of themed circuits.
Promenades à la rencontre des arbres
Trees-discovering walks
The APP “Genève en poche” proposes walks around the parks of the city to discover its rich tree heritage.
Nature in the city
Onex
This walking route is composed of 12 terminals, divided between the City, the Parc des Evaux and the southern hillside of the municipality of Onex. With a length of 6km, it allows you to discover different aspects of biodiversity in the city and its green spaces.
Cedar Trees
Genève-Plage to Bout-du-Monde
This walking circuit allows the public to discover a cityscape scattered with cedar trees. There are 3,800 of these trees in Geneva, representing a precious botanical heritage that the city makes an effort to protect.
Bois-de-la-Bâtie
Bois-de-la-Bâtie
An urban forest unique in Geneva, the Bois-de-la-Bâtie is home to a wildlife park offering the public the chance to see native wildlife species. The park contributes to the conservation of heritage species and also uses a forest management approach promoting the natural regeneration of the oak trees.
Birdwatching
Marais de Sionnet Nature Reserve
An ideal location for birdwatching in the canton of Geneva.
Moulin de Vert Nature Reserve
Moulin de Vert Nature Reserve
Located in Cartigny, this nature reserve is rich in biodiversity.
Cycle the Rhône
Teppes of Verbois
This area is ideally located along the Rhône, a real vegetal artery and votal lead for the migratory water birds. This complex of exceptional natural circles on the scale of Geneva and Switzerland is recognized to have national and international importance.
Hike the Rhône
Geneva to La Plaine
Hike from Geneva to La Plaine and see the natural beauty of the Rhône and the Moulin-de-Vert Nature Reserve, as well as the charming villages of Cartigny and Avully.
Nature Walks
Jussy to Asnières
This walking route takes you through one of the most beautiful regions in the Canton of Geneva. Along the way, discover vineyards, mountain views, the lake and, of course, biodiversity with a variety of bird species.
Le sentier des découvertes de Lancy
Lancy
An educational nature train lined with organic wooden totem poles: the Lancy Discovery Trail offers an unexpected idea for a walk on the outskirts of town, combining originality and a bucolic change of scenery.
Festivals, Thematic Weeks and Markets
Evaux en Fêtes 2024
May to October 2024 | Parc des Evaux
La ville est à vous
May to October 2024
Les camps d’été de l’ASL
1 July – 10 August | Association pour la sauvegarde du Léman
Fête de la musique
21 – 23 June 2024 | Various Locations
Scène Ella Fitzgerald (Musiques en été)
22 June – 23 August 2024 | Parc La Grange
Fête des écoles 2024
26 – 28 June 2024 | Parc des Bastions
L'AMR aux Cropettes
26 – 30 June 2024 | Parc des Cropettes
Transforme Festival
28 – 29 June 2024 | Alhambra
Léman Bouquet Festival
28 – 30 June 2024
AGRI.FÊTE
5, 6, 7 July 2024 | Place de Sardaigne, Carouge
Fête nationale Suisse
1 August 2024 | Parc La Grange
Genève Genève
14 – 18 August 2024
Far° festival et fabrique des arts vivants
14 – 18 August 2024 | Nyon
Emportons malin!
22, 27, 30 August & 2, 4 September 2024 | Various Locations
Back to school party at the MEA
21 August 2024 | Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence
Don't make a big cheese of it!
24 August 2024 | Dardagny
Festi’rouge, la grande fête des légumes d’été et de la biodiversité cultivée
25 August 2024 | Plan les Ouates
Festi'terroir, Festival de la vente directe et du bio
30 August – 1 September 2024 | Parc des Bastions
Fête du vélo
31 August – 1 September 2024 | Parc des Bastions
Journées Européennes du Patrimoine
7 – 8 September 2024
Fête des Vendanges de Russin
14, 15 September 2024 | Village de Russin
Fête de l'Alimentation Durable
14 September | Ecoquartier de la Jonction
Les 20 ans de la Libellule !
15 September 2024 | Centre Nature La Libellule
Alternatiba Léman, 10th Edition
15 – 21 September 2024 | Village Alternatiba
Fête de l'Abeille et du Terroir
21 September 2024 | Lancy
Legumes en ville
May to November 2024
Conferences and Courses
Aurélien Barrau: la poésie comme solution à la crise écologique?
15 June 2024 | Bains des Paquis
Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la botanique
20 June 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Nage en eau libre: Sensibilisation et prévention
22 June 2024 | Baby Plage
Drôles de métiers! - Horticulteur·rice
3 July & 7 August 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique
Champignons: un monde sans fin
11 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Connaître pour nommer, nommer pour protéger
18 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Méditer en été
25 July 2024 | Musée d’art et d’histoire
Berne is Everywhere
28 July 2024 | Théâtre de l’Orangerie
Multipalms, un projet transdisciplinaire pour la conservation des palmiers indigènes de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
8 August 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Pourquoi les fleurs sont-elles si diverses ?
29 August 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
La vie secrète des chauves-souris en forêt
10 September 2024 | Collège de Saussure
Diversité et durabilité agricole et alimentaire à Genève – Règles internationales et systèmes locaux
10 September 2024 | Ecoquartier Jonction
Ecological histories of photography
12 September 2024 | MEG
Cycles de Claude Marthaler | Conférences Illustrées
11 – 14 September 2024 | Musée Rath
Les sols : ces compagnons que nous méconnaissons
19 September 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
La tomate de A à Z – Conférence gourmande
21 September 2024 | Jardin Botanique Alpin de Meyrin
When you have your fangs!
Until 20 December 2024 | Musée d’Histoire naturelle
Cinema, Theater and Music
Summer Concert 2024 | "Summer Lovin"
June – July 2024 | Concerts Genève
Théâtre de l'Orangerie
12 June – 8 September 2024 | Théâtre de l’Orangerie
Solstice d'été en musique : passage de disques par Amandine Casadamont & Madeleine Leclair
20 June 2024 | Musée d’ethnographie de Genéve (MEG)
Abri x Arboretum – Fête de la musique
22 June 2024 | Théâtre de l’Orangerie
CinéTransat 15h Edition
11 July – 18 August 2024 | Perle du Lac
GTG x Les Bains des Pâquis
15 August 2024 | Bains de Paquis
OSR Festival at Genève-Plage: Singin' in the Rain
15 August 2024 | Genève Plage
Les Aubes Musicales
Until 15 August 2024
Cube !
6-7 September | Devant la bibliothèque de la Jonction, Bd Carl-Vogt 22, 1205 Genève
Inestimables Forêts | Film Screening
8 September | Cinélux
Le Dernier Survivant | Film Screening
17 September | Cinélux
Workshops and DIY
Atelier p’tits jardinier - Jaune comme une tomate
17 June 2024 | Espace de quartier Plainpalais
Atelier mobile de réparation de vélos
20 June 2024 | Cité Seniors
Création de papier végétal
23 June 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Libellule et Potager
23 June – 8 September 2024 | Théâtre de l’Orangerie
Zéro déchet et cuisine durable
24 June 2024 | Maison de l’alimentation MA-Terre
Atelier cosmétique pour enfant: fabrication Gel douche tropical
26 June 2024 | Espace de quartier Eaux-Vives
Réparation : On raccommode ses pantalons
26 – 27 June 2024 | Théâtre de l’Orangerie
Dites-le avec des fleurs - Atelier d’écriture pour les enfants
14 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
La poésie des fleurs - Atelier d’écriture pour les adultes
14 July 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Construction : fabrique ta lampe solaire
7 – 8 August 2024 | Théâtre de l’Orangerie
Nomadic Drawing
21 August 2024 | Bains de Paquis
De toutes les couleurs - les encres végétales
25 August 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique
Atelier sur la pêche de vigne
31 August 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Atelier "théâtre et bricolage"
From 4 September to 16 October 2024 | Bioparc Genève
Biodiversité des Tomates
7 September 2024 | Berges de Vessy
Calligraphie au naturel
15 September 2024 | Berges de Vessy
Une plante ça se déplace ?
15 September 2024 | Berges de Vessy
Reliure au Jardin
15 September 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Une plante ça se déplace ?
18 September 2024 | Berges de Vessy
Atelier de Céramique sur le Paysage
21 September 2024 | Musée Ariana
Comment sauver cette plante?
Until 30 November 2024 | Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques
Competitions and Contests
34ème édition du La Tour Genève Triathlon
6 July 2024 | Association Genève Triathlon
Agir à Genève
From 30 August to 29 September | online
Nature Documentaries and Series
Restore Season II: Films from the frontiers of hope
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration | United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agricultural Organization
Restore: Films from the frontiers of hope
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration | United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agricultural Organization
Earth School
TED Ed and United Nations Environment Programme
Les lacustres - Mémoires d'outre-lac
Les lacustres – Mémoires d’outre-lac
Our Planet
WWF
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, watch the award-winning docuseries Our Planet that WWF and Netflix has made available for free on YouTube.
Online Resources
Consomm'action
Discover the keys to responsible consumption
This guide published by the canton brings together tips to limit the impact of our consumption on our health and that of the planet.
«Bien manger à prix raisonnable»: Mode d’emploi
Eat in a balanced way, taking into account the well-being of farmers and respecting the environment while limiting your expenses? It is quite possible!
Faites le plein de fruits et légumes de saison!
A poster of the seasonal fruit and vegetable calendar.
Rock’n’Sobre
The show Rock’n’Sobre takes you to the discovery of local and sustainable initiatives throughout the Geneva territory.
The UN Forest Podcast | UNECE
The UN Forest Podcast | UNECE
Let's Talk Ecosystems Podcast
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) | FAO & UNEP Europe Office
Interactive Nature Map
Canton of Geneva
Discover the protected, natural and observation areas of the canton with an interactive map, suggesting various hiking, walking and cycling routes adapted to every age.
Geneva's Biodiversity
Patrimoine Vert Genève
Learn more about the different species of flora and fauna in Geneva.
Science Guide
Science Academy of Sciences
Mobile app to learn about science, biodiversity and nature activities in Switzerland.
Nature for All Discovery Zone
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Nature-based resources to connect people with nature.
WWF Wild Classroom
WWF
Bring conservation and science to life with these videos from WWF experts sharing their stories and experiences working to protect wildlife and habitats around the world.