Elevation of Brienz, Bern, Switzerland

Brienz, Bern, Switzerland is 574 m (1,883 ft) above sea level.

Brienz's height from sea level is 574 metres, or 1,883 feet. GeoNames reads 563 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

563 m – 2,136 m

Mean 1,202 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,573 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

67th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 290th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Oberdiessbach

10.2 km to the NW, at 1,929 m, 1,355 m higher.

Cross-section through Brienz

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Brienz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,566 m at 12 km west to 1,116 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,222 m at 12 km north to 1,136 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Brienz, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 51 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Brienz

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Oberdiessbach	10.2 km	NW	1,929 m (6,329 ft)	+1,355 m
Lungern (Obwalden)	10.4 km	E	730 m (2,395 ft)	+156 m
Ringgenberg	11.5 km	SW	639 m (2,096 ft)	+65 m
Meiringen	12.3 km	E	642 m (2,106 ft)	+68 m
Bönigen	12.6 km	SW	575 m (1,886 ft)	+1 m

Peaks and passes near Brienz

Jungfrau, peak at 4,158 m (13,642 ft), 25 km to the S — 3,584 m above the town.
Mönch, peak at 4,106 m (13,471 ft), 22.2 km to the S — 3,532 m above the town.
Wengen Jungfrau, peak at 4,088 m (13,412 ft), 24.7 km to the S — 3,514 m above the town.
Chruterepass, pass at 2,052 m (6,732 ft), 3.6 km to the N.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Brienz is

Latitude 46.7566386, longitude 8.0299093. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Brienz's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 563 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.