Elevation of Echallens, Vaud, Switzerland

Echallens, Vaud, Switzerland is 625 m (2,051 ft) above sea level.

Echallens's height from sea level is 625 metres, or 2,051 feet. GeoNames reads 622 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

589 m – 827 m

Mean 656 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 238 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 217th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Froideville

6.1 km to the SE, at 821 m, 196 m higher.

Cross-section through Echallens

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 Echallens; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 541 m at 12 km west to 660 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 434 m at 12 km north to 442 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Echallens, 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 Echallens

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Froideville	6.1 km	SE	821 m (2,694 ft)	+196 m
Cugy	6.3 km	S	707 m (2,320 ft)	+82 m
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne	6.9 km	SW	606 m (1,988 ft)	−19 m
Penthalaz	8.7 km	W	479 m (1,572 ft)	−146 m
Chavornay	8.9 km	NW	460 m (1,509 ft)	−165 m

Peaks and passes near Echallens

Le Chasseron, peak at 1,607 m (5,272 ft), 24.6 km to the N — 982 m above the town.
Le Suchet, peak at 1,588 m (5,210 ft), 19.5 km to the NW — 963 m above the town.
Petites Roches, peak at 1,583 m (5,194 ft), 23.9 km to the N — 958 m above the town.
Col du Mollendruz, pass at 1,179 m (3,868 ft), 20.5 km to the W.

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

Where Echallens is

Latitude 46.6406021, longitude 6.6354198. 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 Echallens'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 622 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.