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

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
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rüte | 2.4 km | SE | 844 m (2,769 ft) | +58 m |
| Schwende | 3.4 km | SE | 859 m (2,818 ft) | +73 m |
| Gais (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden) | 5 km | NE | 949 m (3,114 ft) | +163 m |
| Teufen (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden) | 6.8 km | N | 829 m (2,720 ft) | +43 m |
| Speicher (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden) | 9.5 km | N | 907 m (2,976 ft) | +121 m |
Peaks and passes near Appenzell
- Säntis, peak at 2,502 m (8,209 ft), 10.3 km to the SW — 1,716 m above the town.
- Altmann, peak at 2,435 m (7,989 ft), 10.5 km to the S — 1,649 m above the town.
- Altmannkamm, peak at 2,410 m (7,907 ft), 10.5 km to the S — 1,624 m above the town.
- Stoss, pass at 953 m (3,127 ft), 6.3 km to the NE.
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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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.