Elevation of Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland

Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland is 390 m (1,280 ft) above sea level.

Brissago's height from sea level is 390 metres, or 1,280 feet. GeoNames reads 217 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

191 m – 1,834 m

Mean 670 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,643 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 53

among the towns of Ticino, and 887th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Ascona

7 km to the NE, at 204 m, 186 m lower.

Cross-section through Brissago

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 Brissago; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,320 m at 12 km west to 1,163 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 340 m at 12 km north to 191 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Brissago, 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 Brissago

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ascona	7 km	NE	204 m (669 ft)	−186 m
Losone	7.1 km	NE	223 m (732 ft)	−167 m
Locarno	8.5 km	NE	294 m (965 ft)	−96 m
Muralto	9.9 km	NE	205 m (673 ft)	−185 m
Minusio	11 km	NE	267 m (876 ft)	−123 m

Peaks and passes near Brissago

Rasiva, peak at 2,684 m (8,806 ft), 24.2 km to the N — 2,294 m above the town.
Pizzo Medaro, peak at 2,551 m (8,369 ft), 22.3 km to the NW — 2,161 m above the town.
Sgemögna, peak at 2,545 m (8,350 ft), 24.3 km to the N — 2,155 m above the town.
Forcola, pass at 1,020 m (3,346 ft), 7.8 km to the W.

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

Where Brissago is

Latitude 46.1183253, longitude 8.705555. 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 Brissago'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 217 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.