Elevation of Chiasso, Ticino, Switzerland

Chiasso, Ticino, Switzerland is 245 m (804 ft) above sea level.

Chiasso's height from sea level is 245 metres, or 804 feet. GeoNames reads 237 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

201 m – 1,129 m

Mean 467 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 928 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

47th of 53

among the towns of Ticino, and 989th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Balerna

1.7 km to the NW, at 274 m, 29 m higher.

Cross-section through Chiasso

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chiasso; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 405 m at 12 km west to 1,050 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,067 m at 12 km north to 314 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Chiasso, 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 Chiasso

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Balerna	1.7 km	NW	274 m (899 ft)	+29 m
Vacallo	1.8 km	NE	308 m (1,010 ft)	+63 m
Morbio Inferiore	1.9 km	NW	358 m (1,175 ft)	+113 m
Castel San Pietro	3.3 km	NW	437 m (1,434 ft)	+192 m
Coldrerio	3.7 km	NW	351 m (1,152 ft)	+106 m

Peaks and passes near Chiasso

Cima di Fojorina, peak at 1,810 m (5,938 ft), 25 km to the N — 1,565 m above the town.
Monte Generoso, peak at 1,701 m (5,581 ft), 10.7 km to the N — 1,456 m above the town.
Monte di Tremezzo, peak at 1,700 m (5,577 ft), 22.2 km to the NE — 1,455 m above the town.
Colma di Sormano, pass at 1,124 m (3,688 ft), 16.5 km to the E.

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

Where Chiasso is

Latitude 45.8349334, longitude 9.0270226. 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 Chiasso'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 237 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.