Zürich, Switzerland

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The Zürich graticule is located at latitude 47, longitude 8. Zurich, the biggest city in Switzerland, lies more or less in the center of it. The graticule further contains the cities of Winterthur, Lucerne and Schaffhausen.

Around two third of its area are within Switzerland whereas the northern part belongs to Germany. Other geographical features are the origin of the Danube river near Donaueschingen, the river Rhine that cuts the area from east to west, and the beginning of the Alpine mountain range in the very south east of the graticule.

About

The graticule covers an area of 8375 km². The highest elevation is near the Ruchen mountain, and lies 2901 m (9500 ft) above sea level. The lowest point (289 m) is where the Rhine leaves the graticule westwards near the town of Sisseln.

According to Land usage, the chance for your hash to fall into one of the following areas is:

42.05%	Fields
24.31%	Forests
22.90%	Natural reserves
3.63%	Water
3.35%	Settlements
2.60%	Roads
1.14%	Highways

The chance that a hash falls into the city of Zürich is 1.09%.

Today's Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Active geohashers in this graticule

• Calamus
• Waldzitherclown
• Foehammer
• Chris_47_8
• Guga2112

Inactive geohashers or status unknown

• Galileo
• Adi
• Meow
• Dsifeoco
• Zafford
• Wolkenjaeger
• Wuestenschiff

Achievements

The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2012-06 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 6 expeditions.

The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2013-01 in the category total expeditions by being the location of 10 expeditions.

The Zürich, Switzerland graticule (47 8) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement for the month of 2013-01 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 10 successful expeditions.

In January 2013, Zürich emerged victorious from a hashclash with München, Germany by completing 10 successful expedition while München did 7.

Current plans

Check out the Current events page to see if any expeditions are planned here.

Expeditions

Most recent first.

2013

• 2013-06-16 Chris_47_8 went to the final destination of the S5.
• 2013-06-15 Calamus became a cynicist.
• 2013-06-12 Calamus failed due to laziness.
• 2013-06-04 Calamus went to a town with the funny name Mettmenstetten.
• 2013-04-14 Chris_47_8 did his first bicycle geohash.
• 2013-03-29 Calamus failed in Kyburg.
• 2013-03-09 Calamus went up the Forch.
• 2013-02-19 Guga2112 and Calamus met at a field near Regensdorf.
• 2013-02-18 Calamus went again to the Albisrieden district in Zurich.
• 2013-02-10 Calamus found the fake fence of Würenlos.
• 2013-01-31 Calamus and Chris_47_8 concluded the competition in Baden.
• 2013-01-30 Calamus - And one more. Zürich +1.
• 2013-01-28 Chris_47_8 - One for the competition. Zürich +1.
• 2013-01-26 Chris_47_8 went into Germany. Almost 500 meters.
• 2013-01-20 Chris_47_8 built a snowman and found a castle.
• 2013-01-19 Calamus and Chris_47_8 met in Oerlikon and found a bar - again!
• 2013-01-13 Calamus did a midnight hash right next to the lat day's hashpoint.
• 2013-01-06 Calamus went to a brookside near Ehrendingen.
• 2013-01-03 Calamus and Chris_47_8 found a pub and played some billiards!
• 2013-01-02 Chris_47_8 went to the lovely canton of Schwyz.

2012

• 2012-12-29 Calamus unsuccessfully tried to meet Foehammer.
• 2012-12-23 Calamus went to Glattfelden.
• 2012-12-01 Calamus made an international visit.
• 2012-11-26 Calamus wandered the Üetliberg.
• 2012-10-30 Foehammer - At the edge of a wood, only 900m away from Foehammers home.
• 2012-10-21 TheOneRing near Küssnacht am Rigi (Canton Schwyz).
• 2012-09-21 Calamus did part of a planet walk.
• 2012-09-10 Calamus failed at the Limmat.
• 2012-08-25 Calamus visited the German border.
• 2012-08-19 Calamus celebrated his hashversary.
• 2012-08-07 sarah, Foehammer - On a hill, right on a road near the village of Seon.
• 2012-08-03 Calamus captured the Munot fortress. Through the door.
• 2012-07-30 Calamus's tron was bedevilled by elevation differences.
• 2012-07-29 Calamus and Waldzitherclown visited Bülach city
• 2012-07-08 Calamus got pranked by the Argovian construction authority
• 2012-06-30 Calamus went paddling
• 2012-06-29 Calamus camped over night and got thunderstorm'd
• 2012-06-27 Calamus managed to be allowed onto a wealthy guy's grounds
• 2012-06-25 Calamus found somebody had been waiting for him at the hashpoint for five years
• 2012-06-24 Calamus had to run to reach this nigh-mid-city hashpoint in time
• 2012-06-05 Foehammer failed an ambassador achievement in an Argovian village, but introduced his girlfriend to Geohashing
• 2012-05-26 Frizzy and Hijackal hiked 20 km to the Mouseover hash in flip flops
• 2012-05-25 Frizzy and Hijackal celebrated Towel Day by juggling on the hashpoint
• 2012-05-04 Easy hash on a hill next to a grove and very close to Foehammers home
• 2012-03-08 Although this geohash lies around 3600km from Zürich, its conquer began here. Wolkenjaegers attempt even made it into the hall of amazingness!

2011

• 2011-10-30 TheOneRing — in a forest near Hunzenschwil (canton Aargau).
• 2011-10-08 Arches, Kei — located in the woods of Gelfingen, near the Castle of Heidegg
• 2011-08-20 A nice spot in the middle of Winterthur city
• 2011-08-19 Calamus felt like mountaineering
• 2011-08-16 in Böttstein, Switzerland
• 2011-06-18 Crox and Elisa were stopped by a construction site
• 2011-06-13 In the german exclave Büsingen, reached independently by Ekorren and TheOneRing
• 2011-05-07 Between Effretikon and Kempttal, not far away from the 2010-12-12-geohash
• 2011-02-15 Cheap one: directly on a street in the wood near Baden, Switzerland
• 2011-01-21 Wuestenschiff - On the border between the town of Winterthur and the village Elsau
• 2011-01-09 polyester, Crox, Ekorren, erin, Possibly Fergus, MykaDragonBlue - Multinational meetup near Schleitheim, Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland

older

• 2010-12-26 Danatar visited a snowy but sunlit forest near Schaffhausen and went to the Rhine Falls afterwards.
• 2010-12-12 In Bassersdorf
• 2009-10-14 The Swiss Army went geohashing!
• 2009-05-31 Ekorren was in Sumpfohren.
• 2009-01-21 reached by Enric and relet.
• 2009-01-04 A little new years trip. First time ever for all three participants.
• 2008-11-19 A group led by swiss radio seems to have reached the point. One photo was posted to the main page, otherwise it was only reported on the radio.
• 2008-05-24 Looks like someone got near, but the description is a bit on the short side. Participants were most probably stopped by a fence and did not reach the coordinates.