Elevation of Emmen, Luzern, Switzerland

Emmen, Luzern, Switzerland is 450 m (1,476 ft) above sea level.

Emmen's height from sea level is 450 metres, or 1,476 feet. GeoNames reads 464 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 429 m.

Ground within 4 km

419 m – 649 m

Mean 496 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 230 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

50th of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 606th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Rothenburg

2.2 km to the NW, at 493 m, 43 m higher.

Cross-section through Emmen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Emmen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 743 m at 12 km west to 607 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 513 m at 12 km north to 448 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Emmen, 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 Emmen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rothenburg	2.2 km	NW	493 m (1,617 ft)	+43 m
Littau	3.4 km	S	478 m (1,568 ft)	+28 m
Luzern	4.2 km	SE	443 m (1,453 ft)	−7 m
Ebikon	4.9 km	E	427 m (1,401 ft)	−23 m
Kriens	5.1 km	S	524 m (1,719 ft)	+74 m

Peaks and passes near Emmen

Hoh Brisen, peak at 2,413 m (7,917 ft), 24.6 km to the SE — 1,963 m above the town.
Brisen, peak at 2,404 m (7,887 ft), 24.2 km to the SE — 1,954 m above the town.
Risetenstock, peak at 2,290 m (7,513 ft), 24.3 km to the SE — 1,840 m above the town.
Tellenfadlücke, pass at 1,381 m (4,531 ft), 11.4 km to the S.

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

Where Emmen is

Latitude 47.0795961, longitude 8.2812285. 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 Emmen'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 464 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.