Elevation of Chalais, Valais, Switzerland

Chalais, Valais, Switzerland is 645 m (2,116 ft) above sea level.

Chalais's height from sea level is 645 metres, or 2,116 feet. GeoNames reads 512 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

506 m – 2,389 m

Mean 1,137 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,883 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 196th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Sierre

3.6 km to the NE, at 532 m, 113 m lower.

Cross-section through Chalais

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chalais; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 898 m at 12 km west to 2,320 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 2,701 m at 12 km north to 2,630 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Chalais, 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 Chalais

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sierre	3.6 km	NE	532 m (1,745 ft)	−113 m
Chermignon	3.6 km	NW	1,085 m (3,560 ft)	+440 m
Montana	3.9 km	N	1,207 m (3,960 ft)	+562 m
Grône	4.2 km	W	508 m (1,667 ft)	−137 m
Veyras	4.9 km	NE	665 m (2,182 ft)	+20 m

Peaks and passes near Chalais

Weisshorn, peak at 4,505 m (14,780 ft), 24.2 km to the SE — 3,860 m above the town.
Grand Gendarme, peak at 4,331 m (14,209 ft), 23.5 km to the SE — 3,686 m above the town.
Bishorn, peak at 4,151 m (13,619 ft), 22.8 km to the SE — 3,506 m above the town.
Col de la Brinta, pass at 2,598 m (8,524 ft), 6.1 km to the S.

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

Where Chalais is

Latitude 46.26517, longitude 7.50838. 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 Chalais'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 512 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.