Elevation of Buchs, Zurich, Switzerland

Buchs, Zurich, Switzerland is 427 m (1,401 ft) above sea level.

Buchs's height from sea level is 427 metres, or 1,401 feet. GeoNames reads 452 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

384 m – 737 m

Mean 486 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 353 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

99th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 742nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Dällikon

2.3 km to the S, at 469 m, 42 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 409 m at 12 km west to 429 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 395 m at 12 km north to 588 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
Dällikon	2.3 km	S	469 m (1,539 ft)	+42 m
Regensdorf	2.9 km	SE	440 m (1,444 ft)	+13 m
Dielsdorf	3 km	NE	462 m (1,516 ft)	+35 m
Dänikon	3 km	SW	449 m (1,473 ft)	+22 m
Otelfingen	3.9 km	W	448 m (1,470 ft)	+21 m

Peaks and passes near Buchs

Bürglen, peak at 915 m (3,002 ft), 23.4 km to the S — 488 m above the town.
Albishorn, peak at 909 m (2,982 ft), 24.3 km to the S — 482 m above the town.
Uetliberg, peak at 870 m (2,854 ft), 12.7 km to the S — 443 m above the town.
Lägernsattel, pass at 774 m (2,539 ft), 6.9 km to the W.

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

Where Buchs is

Latitude 47.4579375, longitude 8.4412545. 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 452 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.