Elevation of Forel, Vaud, Switzerland

Forel, Vaud, Switzerland is 738 m (2,421 ft) above sea level.

Forel's height from sea level is 738 metres, or 2,421 feet. GeoNames reads 738 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Forel (Lavaux).

Ground within 4 km

603 m – 965 m

Mean 747 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 362 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 121st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Savigny

3 km to the W, at 798 m, 60 m higher.

Cross-section through Forel

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Forel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 684 m at 12 km west to 836 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 804 m at 12 km north to 370 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Forel, 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 Forel

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Savigny	3 km	W	798 m (2,618 ft)	+60 m
Puidoux	4.8 km	S	656 m (2,152 ft)	−82 m
Grandvaux	5.9 km	SW	731 m (2,398 ft)	−7 m
Ecublens	6.5 km	N	710 m (2,329 ft)	−28 m
Chexbres	6.9 km	S	507 m (1,663 ft)	−231 m

Peaks and passes near Forel

Les Cornettes de Bise, peak at 2,432 m (7,979 ft), 23.5 km to the S — 1,694 m above the town.
Rochers de Chaudin, peak at 2,276 m (7,467 ft), 23.5 km to the S — 1,538 m above the town.
La Dent d'Oche, peak at 2,222 m (7,290 ft), 21.4 km to the S — 1,484 m above the town.
Col de Soladier, pass at 1,576 m (5,171 ft), 16.8 km to the SE.

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

Where Forel is

Latitude 46.54338, longitude 6.77082. 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 Forel'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 738 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.