Switzerland West · Geneva, CH. How long a round trip from your machine to this region takes — and how much of that distance alone demands.
| Cloud | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Region code | switzerlandwest |
| Region name | Switzerland West |
| Datacentre city | Geneva, CH |
| Coordinates | 46.20, 6.14 |
| Published IPv4 prefixes | 293 |
| Probe endpoint | https://switzerlandwest.livediagnostics.monitor.azure.com/ |
| Probe style | timed blind — the endpoint sends no CORS headers |
| Verification | Resolved to an address inside this region’s own published range, TCP 443 open. Checked 2026-08-21. |
Coordinates are the real datacentre city rather than the marketing region name, because they feed the distance maths below.
Light in fibre covers about 100 km per millisecond of round trip. These are the great-circle distances to Geneva and the latency no network can beat — not a measurement, a limit. What you actually measure is this plus routing.
| From | Distance | Floor |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 6,217 km | 62 ms |
| Los Angeles | 9,495 km | 95 ms |
| São Paulo | 9,399 km | 94 ms |
| London | 747 km | 7.5 ms |
| Frankfurt | 473 km | 4.7 ms |
| Johannesburg | 8,349 km | 83 ms |
| Dubai | 4,913 km | 49 ms |
| Mumbai | 6,714 km | 67 ms |
| Singapore | 10,489 km | 105 ms |
| Tokyo | 9,791 km | 98 ms |
| Sydney | 16,774 km | 168 ms |
The closest regions to Geneva on any cloud, with the distance between them and the floor that distance sets.
These figures are geometry. Your own round trip to switzerlandwest depends on your connection and the route it takes — open the instrument, pick Azure, and sweep. Every region is timed from your browser against the endpoint listed above, and the result is split into the part physics demands and the part the network added.
See every Azure region on the Azure latency page.