Elevation of Founex, Vaud, Switzerland

Founex, Vaud, Switzerland is 390 m (1,280 ft) above sea level.

Founex's height from sea level is 390 metres, or 1,280 feet. GeoNames reads 401 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 401 m.

Ground within 4 km

370 m – 489 m

Mean 405 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 119 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

72nd of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 887th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Coppet

1.8 km to the S, at 381 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Founex

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 Founex; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 565 m at 12 km west to 413 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 918 m at 12 km north to 426 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Founex, 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 Founex

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Coppet	1.8 km	S	381 m (1,250 ft)	−9 m
Commugny	2.1 km	SW	427 m (1,401 ft)	+37 m
Tannay	3.1 km	SW	408 m (1,339 ft)	+18 m
Crans-près-Céligny	3.3 km	N	413 m (1,355 ft)	+23 m
Mies	3.9 km	SW	407 m (1,335 ft)	+17 m

Peaks and passes near Founex

Crêt de la Neige, peak at 1,717 m (5,633 ft), 20.9 km to the W — 1,327 m above the town.
Le Reculet, peak at 1,717 m (5,633 ft), 22.1 km to the W — 1,327 m above the town.
Le Colomby de Gex, peak at 1,688 m (5,538 ft), 15.5 km to the W — 1,298 m above the town.
Col de Porte, pass at 1,557 m (5,108 ft), 13.1 km to the NW.

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

Where Founex is

Latitude 46.3330627, longitude 6.1960192. 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 Founex'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 401 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.