Elevation of Buchrain, Luzern, Switzerland

Buchrain, Luzern, Switzerland is 445 m (1,460 ft) above sea level.

Buchrain's height from sea level is 445 metres, or 1,460 feet. GeoNames reads 458 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 458 m.

Ground within 4 km

408 m – 712 m

Mean 483 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 304 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

51st of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 629th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

1.4 km to the S, at 427 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Buchrain

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 Buchrain; the vertical scale is the same on both.

787383WE24.2 km
West to east: from 545 m at 12 km west to 411 m at 12 km east.
787383NS24.2 km
North to south: from 585 m at 12 km north to 447 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Buchrain, 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 Buchrain

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ebikon 1.4 kmS 427 m (1,401 ft) −18 m
Adligenswil 3.1 kmSE 553 m (1,814 ft) +108 m
Inwil 3.1 kmN 419 m (1,375 ft) −26 m
Root 3.8 kmNE 428 m (1,404 ft) −17 m
Udligenswil 4 kmE 595 m (1,952 ft) +150 m

Peaks and passes near Buchrain

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

Where Buchrain is

Latitude 47.0954598, longitude 8.3489245. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Buchrain elevation: 445 m (1,460 ft) above sea level

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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 Buchrain'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 458 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.