Elevation of Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland

Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland is 454 m (1,490 ft) above sea level.

Altdorf's height from sea level is 454 metres, or 1,490 feet. GeoNames reads 465 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 458 m.

Also written: Altorf.

Ground within 4 km

431 m – 2,035 m

Mean 925 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,604 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 7

among the towns of Uri, and 592nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Bürglen

1.7 km to the E, at 706 m, 252 m higher.

Cross-section through Altdorf

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 Altdorf; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,316 m at 12 km west to 1,483 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 449 m at 12 km north to 951 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Altdorf, 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 Altdorf

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bürglen	1.7 km	E	706 m (2,316 ft)	+252 m
Seedorf	2.7 km	W	450 m (1,476 ft)	−4 m
Flüelen	2.9 km	N	596 m (1,955 ft)	+142 m
Schattdorf	3.2 km	S	673 m (2,208 ft)	+219 m
Erstfeld	6.1 km	S	470 m (1,542 ft)	+16 m

Peaks and passes near Altdorf

Piz Russein, peak at 3,612 m (11,850 ft), 22.1 km to the E — 3,158 m above the town.
Glarner Tödi, peak at 3,570 m (11,713 ft), 22.7 km to the E — 3,116 m above the town.
Sustenhorn, peak at 3,501 m (11,486 ft), 24.4 km to the SW — 3,047 m above the town.
Grätli, pass at 1,993 m (6,539 ft), 5.3 km to the SE.

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

Where Altdorf is

Latitude 46.8778929, longitude 8.6405494. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Altdorf'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 465 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.