Elevation of Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland

Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland is 587 m (1,926 ft) above sea level.

Chur's height from sea level is 587 metres, or 1,926 feet. GeoNames reads 601 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 593 m.

Also written: Coira Cuira Cuoira Cuera Coire Quera.

Ground within 4 km

556 m – 2,060 m

Mean 1,041 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,504 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 26

among the towns of Graubünden, and 269th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Felsberg

4.4 km to the W, at 602 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Chur

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 Chur; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,310 m at 12 km west to 1,936 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 749 m at 12 km north to 1,760 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Chur, 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 Chur

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Felsberg	4.4 km	W	602 m (1,975 ft)	+15 m
Trimmis	5.3 km	NE	646 m (2,119 ft)	+59 m
Domat	6.4 km	SW	578 m (1,896 ft)	−9 m
Untervaz	7.9 km	N	554 m (1,818 ft)	−33 m
Zizers	9.2 km	N	603 m (1,978 ft)	+16 m

Peaks and passes near Chur

Ringelspitz, peak at 3,247 m (10,653 ft), 14.7 km to the W — 2,660 m above the town.
Glaserhorn, peak at 3,127 m (10,259 ft), 15.5 km to the W — 2,540 m above the town.
Piz da Sterls, peak at 3,114 m (10,217 ft), 16.7 km to the W — 2,527 m above the town.
Joch, pass at 2,020 m (6,627 ft), 6.7 km to the SE.

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

Where Chur is

Latitude 46.8572621, longitude 9.5267305. 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 Chur'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 601 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.