Elevation of Cham, Zug, Switzerland

Cham, Zug, Switzerland is 422 m (1,385 ft) above sea level.

Cham's height from sea level is 422 metres, or 1,385 feet. GeoNames reads 424 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 420 m.

Ground within 4 km

390 m – 521 m

Mean 428 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 131 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 11

among the towns of Zug, and 772nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.3 km to the W, at 462 m, 40 m higher.

Cross-section through Cham

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 Cham; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,132341WE24.2 km
West to east: from 593 m at 12 km west to 780 m at 12 km east.
1,132341NS24.2 km
North to south: from 578 m at 12 km north to 1,077 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Cham, 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 Cham

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hünenberg 2.3 kmW 462 m (1,516 ft) +40 m
Steinhausen 2.8 kmNE 430 m (1,411 ft) +8 m
Zug 4.4 kmE 418 m (1,371 ft) −4 m
Sins (Aargau) 4.8 kmW 416 m (1,365 ft) −6 m
Knonau (Zurich) 4.9 kmN 438 m (1,437 ft) +16 m

Peaks and passes near Cham

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

Where Cham is

Latitude 47.1801948, longitude 8.4560745. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cham elevation: 422 m (1,385 ft) above sea level

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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 Cham'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 424 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.