Elevation of Elsau, Zurich, Switzerland

Elsau, Zurich, Switzerland is 514 m (1,686 ft) above sea level.

Elsau's height from sea level is 514 metres, or 1,686 feet. GeoNames reads 514 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

421 m – 732 m

Mean 539 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 311 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 408th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Wiesendangen

2 km to the NW, at 472 m, 42 m lower.

Cross-section through Elsau

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 Elsau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 452 m at 12 km west to 493 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 453 m at 12 km north to 679 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Elsau, 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 Elsau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Wiesendangen	2 km	NW	472 m (1,549 ft)	−42 m
Winterthur	4.9 km	W	465 m (1,526 ft)	−49 m
Elgg	5 km	E	557 m (1,827 ft)	+43 m
Rickenbach	5.1 km	N	433 m (1,421 ft)	−81 m
Gachnang (Thurgau)	5.3 km	NE	468 m (1,535 ft)	−46 m

Peaks and passes near Elsau

Schnebelhorn, peak at 1,291 m (4,236 ft), 24 km to the SE — 777 m above the town.
Brandegg, hill at 1,238 m (4,062 ft), 24.5 km to the SE — 724 m above the town.
Schindelberghöchi, hill at 1,234 m (4,049 ft), 24.8 km to the SE — 720 m above the town.
Stäägen, pass at 834 m (2,736 ft), 18.5 km to the SE.

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

Where Elsau is

Latitude 47.505419, longitude 8.802254. 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 Elsau'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 514 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.