Elevation of Cossonay, Vaud, Switzerland
Cossonay, Vaud, Switzerland is 573 m (1,880 ft) above sea level.
Cossonay's height from sea level is 573 metres, or 1,880 feet. GeoNames reads 565 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 565 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 523 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 212 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Cossonay
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 Cossonay; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Cossonay
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penthalaz | 1.6 km | E | 479 m (1,572 ft) | −94 m |
| La Sarraz | 5.1 km | N | 501 m (1,644 ft) | −72 m |
| Bussigny-près-Lausanne | 7.9 km | SE | 456 m (1,496 ft) | −117 m |
| Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne | 7.9 km | SE | 606 m (1,988 ft) | +33 m |
| Crissier | 8.3 km | SE | 476 m (1,562 ft) | −97 m |
Peaks and passes near Cossonay
- Mont Tendre, peak at 1,679 m (5,509 ft), 15.2 km to the W — 1,106 m above the town.
- Le Suchet, peak at 1,588 m (5,210 ft), 17.9 km to the N — 1,015 m above the town.
- Grand Cunay, peak at 1,574 m (5,164 ft), 18.3 km to the W — 1,001 m above the town.
- Col du Mollendruz, pass at 1,179 m (3,868 ft), 11.4 km to the W.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Cossonay is
Latitude 46.6139, longitude 6.50713. 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 Cossonay'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 565 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.