Elevation of Affoltern am Albis, Zurich, Switzerland

Affoltern am Albis, Zurich, Switzerland is 498 m (1,634 ft) above sea level.

Affoltern am Albis's height from sea level is 498 metres, or 1,634 feet. GeoNames reads 496 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Affoltern.

Ground within 4 km

386 m – 764 m

Mean 546 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 378 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

43rd of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 451st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Hedingen

2.5 km to the N, at 578 m, 80 m higher.

Cross-section through Affoltern am Albis

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 Affoltern am Albis; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 476 m at 12 km west to 430 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 392 m at 12 km north to 428 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Affoltern am Albis, 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 Affoltern am Albis

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Hedingen	2.5 km	N	578 m (1,896 ft)	+80 m
Obfelden	2.7 km	SW	434 m (1,424 ft)	−64 m
Aeugst am Albis	2.9 km	E	750 m (2,461 ft)	+252 m
Mettmenstetten	3.3 km	S	612 m (2,008 ft)	+114 m
Ottenbach	3.5 km	W	409 m (1,342 ft)	−89 m

Peaks and passes near Affoltern am Albis

Kulm, peak at 1,797 m (5,896 ft), 24.7 km to the S — 1,299 m above the town.
In den Banderen, peak at 1,727 m (5,666 ft), 24.8 km to the S — 1,229 m above the town.
Wildspitz, peak at 1,580 m (5,184 ft), 23.5 km to the SE — 1,082 m above the town.
Buchenegg, pass at 786 m (2,579 ft), 4.8 km to the NE.

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

Where Affoltern am Albis is

Latitude 47.2775064, longitude 8.4503277. 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 Affoltern am Albis'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 496 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.