Elevation of Elgg, Zurich, Switzerland

Elgg, Zurich, Switzerland is 557 m (1,827 ft) above sea level.

Elgg's height from sea level is 557 metres, or 1,827 feet. GeoNames reads 508 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

498 m – 816 m

Mean 611 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 318 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 323rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the E, at 534 m, 23 m lower.

Cross-section through Elgg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Elgg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

851346WE24.1 km
West to east: from 498 m at 12 km west to 509 m at 12 km east.
851346NS24.1 km
North to south: from 488 m at 12 km north to 737 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Elgg, 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 Elgg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Aadorf (Thurgau) 3.1 kmE 534 m (1,752 ft) −23 m
Elsau 5 kmW 514 m (1,686 ft) −43 m
Gachnang (Thurgau) 5.5 kmN 468 m (1,535 ft) −89 m
Zell 5.8 kmSW 667 m (2,188 ft) +110 m
Matzingen (Thurgau) 5.9 kmNE 448 m (1,470 ft) −109 m

Peaks and passes near Elgg

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

Where Elgg is

Latitude 47.49115, longitude 8.865154. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Elgg elevation: 557 m (1,827 ft) above sea level

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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 Elgg'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 508 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.