Elevation of Buochs, Nidwalden, Switzerland

Buochs, Nidwalden, Switzerland is 488 m (1,601 ft) above sea level.

Buochs's height from sea level is 488 metres, or 1,601 feet. GeoNames reads 441 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 441 m.

Ground within 4 km

431 m – 1,654 m

Mean 708 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,223 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 10

among the towns of Nidwalden, and 473rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Ennetbürgen

1.2 km to the N, at 519 m, 31 m higher.

Cross-section through Buochs

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 Buochs; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 584 m at 12 km west to 627 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 568 m at 12 km north to 2,046 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Buochs, 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 Buochs

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ennetbürgen	1.2 km	N	519 m (1,703 ft)	+31 m
Oberdorf	3.9 km	SW	463 m (1,519 ft)	−25 m
Beckenried	4.5 km	E	525 m (1,722 ft)	+37 m
Stans	5.2 km	W	446 m (1,463 ft)	−42 m
Dallenwil	5.8 km	SW	579 m (1,900 ft)	+91 m

Peaks and passes near Buochs

Titlis, peak at 3,238 m (10,623 ft), 22.5 km to the S — 2,750 m above the town.
Gross Spannort, peak at 3,198 m (10,492 ft), 22.3 km to the S — 2,710 m above the town.
Chli Spannort, peak at 3,135 m (10,285 ft), 22.7 km to the S — 2,647 m above the town.
Fälmisegg, pass at 1,177 m (3,862 ft), 7.9 km to the NE.

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

Where Buochs is

Latitude 46.9740999, longitude 8.4210032. 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 Buochs'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 441 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.