Elevation of Ecublens, Vaud, Switzerland

Ecublens, Vaud, Switzerland is 710 m (2,329 ft) above sea level.

Ecublens's height from sea level is 710 metres, or 2,329 feet. GeoNames reads 591 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 594 m.

Ground within 4 km

557 m – 858 m

Mean 697 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 301 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 140th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Ursy

5.2 km to the NE, at 763 m, 53 m higher.

Cross-section through Ecublens

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 Ecublens; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 752 m at 12 km west to 887 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 763 m at 12 km north to 531 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Ecublens, 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 Ecublens

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ursy (Fribourg)	5.2 km	NE	763 m (2,503 ft)	+53 m
Forel	6.5 km	S	738 m (2,421 ft)	+28 m
Moudon	7.7 km	N	543 m (1,781 ft)	−167 m
Froideville	7.7 km	W	821 m (2,694 ft)	+111 m
Savigny	8.1 km	SW	798 m (2,618 ft)	+88 m

Peaks and passes near Ecublens

Rochers de Naye, peak at 2,042 m (6,699 ft), 23.5 km to the SE — 1,332 m above the town.
Dent de Lys, peak at 2,014 m (6,608 ft), 19.3 km to the SE — 1,304 m above the town.
Le Moléson, peak at 2,002 m (6,568 ft), 18.3 km to the E — 1,292 m above the town.
Col de Lys, pass at 1,779 m (5,837 ft), 18.9 km to the SE.

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

Where Ecublens is

Latitude 46.6, longitude 6.79. 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 Ecublens'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 591 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.