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General information - Location

Country	Switzerland
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	Central Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 7.6732,Lat: 46.494
Elevation	1295 meter above sea level
Local time	18:47:47pm
Name province/region (Kanton)	Bern
Wiki-website Subregion (Bezirk)	Frutigen-Niedersimmental
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Kandersteg

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Mitholz	3.7 km	North
2 Kandergrund	5.7 km	North
3 Adelboden	8.8 km	West
4 Frutigen	10.7 km	North
5 Kiental	11.3 km	NorthNorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Bern	Switzerland	53 km	NorthNorthWest
2 Vaduz	Liechtenstein	158 km	EastNorthEast
3 Monte Carlo	Monaco	307 km	South

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 244 km (direction SouthSouthEast).The coastline is located in another country namely Italy.The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Aare, part of the larger catchment area Rhine. The nearest bigger lake is Oeschinensee (1.1 km² at a height of around 1577 meter above sea level) at a distance of 3.2 km in Eastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Niesen with a height of 2362 meter (at a distance of 17 km and direction North). The most nearby international border is the Italian-Swiss border with a straight distance of 40.6 km in SouthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 57 km.
Elevation around place: moderate high mountains: 17%, high mountains: 83%, The hills are mainly northwestern orientated. The surroundings of the place have a rural character (very sparsely urbanised). The most common land use in the area is nature.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name
Steile Berglandschaft der Nordalpen -- Paysage montagnard abrupt des Alpes septentrionales

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport (at a distance of 122 km and direction North).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

18.1 km2

23%

Nature

29.5 km2

37.6%

Agriculture

6.7 km2

8.6%

Urban area

1.5 km2

1.9%

Rock-Sand

20.3 km2

25.8%

Water - Lakes

1.3 km2

1.6%

Ice - Glacier

1.1 km2

1.4%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Kandersteg in country Switzerland

Kandersteg at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch	Switzerland	28 km	East
2 Old City of Berne	Switzerland	53 km	NorthNorthWest
3 The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Belgium,France, Germany,Switzerland	65 km	West

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Kandersteg

Type of weather in Kandersteg	light snow
Current temperature:	-5 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	5.39 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	South
Air pressure:	994 mb
Humidity:	95 %
Daylength at 21 November 2024:	9 hour and 11 minutes
Sunrise :	07:40 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	16:50 Europe/Amsterdam