Elevation of Buchs, Aargau, Switzerland

Buchs, Aargau, Switzerland is 384 m (1,260 ft) above sea level.

Buchs's height from sea level is 384 metres, or 1,260 feet. GeoNames reads 385 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

366 m – 709 m

Mean 451 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 343 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

82nd of 106

among the towns of Aargau, and 903rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Suhr

1.9 km to the S, at 400 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Buchs

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 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 470 m at 12 km west to 458 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 583 m at 12 km north to 634 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
Suhr	1.9 km	S	400 m (1,312 ft)	+16 m
Aarau	2.6 km	W	402 m (1,319 ft)	+18 m
Hunzenschwil	3.4 km	E	399 m (1,309 ft)	+15 m
Küttigen	3.7 km	NW	468 m (1,535 ft)	+84 m
Gränichen	3.9 km	SE	448 m (1,470 ft)	+64 m

Peaks and passes near Buchs

Ruchen, peak at 1,123 m (3,684 ft), 20.8 km to the W — 739 m above the town.
Belchenflue, peak at 1,099 m (3,606 ft), 20.5 km to the W — 715 m above the town.
Drootziejer, peak at 1,063 m (3,488 ft), 21.2 km to the W — 679 m above the town.
Gatter, pass at 642 m (2,106 ft), 3.8 km to the N.

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

Where Buchs is

Latitude 47.391365, longitude 8.0799022. 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 385 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.