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General information - Location

Country	Switzerland
Location in country	West
Location in Europe	Central Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 7.2158,Lat: 46.8159
Elevation	654 meter above sea level
Local time	18:14:55pm
Name province/region (Kanton)	Fribourg
Wiki-website Subregion (Bezirk)	Sense
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Tafers

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Rohr	1.6 km	EastNorthEast
2 Mariahilf	1.7 km	NorthWest
3 Galteren	1.8 km	SouthEast
4 Jetschwil	2.4 km	NorthNorthWest
5 Tützenberg	2.8 km	NorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Bern	Switzerland	23 km	NorthEast
2 Vaduz	Liechtenstein	179 km	East
3 Luxembourg	Luxembourg	321 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 291 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 (reservoir) is Schiffenensee (4.3 km² at a height of around 531 meter above sea level) at a distance of 3.3 km in Western direction).

The nearest mountain is Murtensee with a height of 429 meter (at a distance of 16.2 km and direction NorthNorthWest). The most nearby international border is the French-Swiss border with a straight distance of 46 km in NorthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 64 km.
Elevation around place: low mountains: 95%, moderate high mountains: 5%, The hills are mainly northern orientated. The surroundings of the place have a rural character (very sparsely urbanised). The most common land use in the area is agriculture.

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

Name
Ackerbaugeprägte Hügellandschaft des Mittellandes -- Paysage de collines du Plateau suisse marqué par les grandes cultures

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport (at a distance of 89 km and direction NorthNorthEast).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

11.1 km2

14.1%

Nature

0.3 km2

0.3%

Agriculture

56.9 km2

72.4%

Urban area

9.8 km2

12.5%

Water - Lakes

0.6 km2

0.7%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Tafers in country Switzerland

Tafers at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Old City of Berne	Switzerland	23 km	NorthEast
2 La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning	Switzerland	43 km	NorthWest
3 The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement	Belgium,France, Germany,Switzerland	49 km	SouthWest

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Filming Location	IMDB Tafers
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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Tafers

Type of weather in Tafers	snow
Current temperature:	-1 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	0.89 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	East
Air pressure:	991 mb
Humidity:	79 %
Daylength at 21 November 2024:	9 hour and 9 minutes
Sunrise :	07:42 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	16:51 Europe/Amsterdam