Elevation of Buchs, Saint Gall, Switzerland

Buchs, Saint Gall, Switzerland is 464 m (1,522 ft) above sea level.

Buchs's height from sea level is 464 metres, or 1,522 feet. GeoNames reads 451 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 451 m.

Ground within 4 km

439 m – 1,737 m

Mean 634 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,298 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 65

among the towns of Saint Gall, and 559th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Grabs

2.6 km to the NW, at 472 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Buchs

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 Buchs; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,838 m at 12 km west to 1,161 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,172 m at 12 km north to 486 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Buchs, 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 Buchs

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Grabs	2.6 km	NW	472 m (1,549 ft)	+8 m
Schaan (Liechtenstein)	2.9 km	E	480 m (1,575 ft)	+16 m
Vaduz (Liechtenstein)	4.5 km	SE	472 m (1,549 ft)	+8 m
Gams	4.9 km	NW	543 m (1,781 ft)	+79 m
Sevelen	5.3 km	S	471 m (1,545 ft)	+7 m

Peaks and passes near Buchs

Schesaplana, peak at 2,965 m (9,728 ft), 21.8 km to the SE — 2,501 m above the town.
Panüeler Kopf, peak at 2,859 m (9,380 ft), 19.3 km to the SE — 2,395 m above the town.
Panüelerkopf, peak at 2,859 m (9,380 ft), 19.3 km to the SE — 2,395 m above the town.
Sisizgrat, pass at 2,016 m (6,614 ft), 5.9 km to the SW.

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

Where Buchs is

Latitude 47.1655641, longitude 9.4699878. 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 Buchs'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 451 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.