Elevation of Brig-Glis, Valais, Switzerland

Brig-Glis, Valais, Switzerland is 701 m (2,300 ft) above sea level.

Brig-Glis's height from sea level is 701 metres, or 2,300 feet. GeoNames reads 677 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 684 m.

Also written: Brigue Briga.

Ground within 4 km

672 m – 2,469 m

Mean 1,351 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,797 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 151st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Naters

1.5 km to the NE, at 761 m, 60 m higher.

Cross-section through Brig-Glis

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Brig-Glis; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 843 m at 12 km west to 2,529 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 2,874 m at 12 km north to 3,183 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Brig-Glis, 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 Brig-Glis

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Naters	1.5 km	NE	761 m (2,497 ft)	+60 m
Ried-Brig	2.4 km	E	934 m (3,064 ft)	+233 m
Visp	8.1 km	W	649 m (2,129 ft)	−52 m
Raron	14.3 km	W	713 m (2,339 ft)	+12 m
Sankt Niklaus	21 km	SW	1,142 m (3,747 ft)	+441 m

Peaks and passes near Brig-Glis

Nadelhorn, peak at 4,327 m (14,196 ft), 24.7 km to the S — 3,626 m above the town.
Stecknadelhorn, peak at 4,240 m (13,911 ft), 24.6 km to the SW — 3,539 m above the town.
Hobärghorn, peak at 4,218 m (13,839 ft), 24.6 km to the SW — 3,517 m above the town.
Üsseri Nanzlicke, pass at 2,601 m (8,533 ft), 6.3 km to the S.

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

Where Brig-Glis is

Latitude 46.3142438, longitude 7.9866989. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Brig-Glis'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 677 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.