Elevation of Appenzell, Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, Switzerland

Appenzell, Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, Switzerland is 786 m (2,579 ft) above sea level.

Appenzell's height from sea level is 786 metres, or 2,579 feet. GeoNames reads 783 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 778 m.

Ground within 4 km

738 m – 1,396 m

Mean 957 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 658 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 4

among the towns of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, and 89th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.4 km to the SE, at 844 m, 58 m higher.

Cross-section through Appenzell

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 Appenzell; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,943364WE24.1 km
West to east: from 896 m at 12 km west to 473 m at 12 km east.
1,943364NS24.1 km
North to south: from 648 m at 12 km north to 999 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Appenzell, 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 Appenzell

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rüte 2.4 kmSE 844 m (2,769 ft) +58 m
Schwende 3.4 kmSE 859 m (2,818 ft) +73 m
Gais (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden) 5 kmNE 949 m (3,114 ft) +163 m
Teufen (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden) 6.8 kmN 829 m (2,720 ft) +43 m
Speicher (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden) 9.5 kmN 907 m (2,976 ft) +121 m

Peaks and passes near Appenzell

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

Where Appenzell is

Latitude 47.3308044, longitude 9.4087063. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Appenzell elevation: 786 m (2,579 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 Appenzell'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 783 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.