Elevation of Fribourg, Switzerland

Fribourg, Switzerland is 661 m (2,169 ft) above sea level.

Fribourg's height from sea level is 661 metres, or 2,169 feet. GeoNames reads 627 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Freiburg.

Ground within 4 km

541 m – 741 m

Mean 634 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 200 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 43

among the towns of Fribourg, and 183rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Givisiez

1.8 km to the NW, at 640 m, 21 m lower.

Cross-section through Fribourg

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 Fribourg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 647 m at 12 km west to 822 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 537 m at 12 km north to 1,023 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Fribourg, 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 Fribourg

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Givisiez	1.8 km	NW	640 m (2,100 ft)	−21 m
Villars-sur-Glâne	1.9 km	SW	698 m (2,290 ft)	+37 m
Marly	2.6 km	S	625 m (2,051 ft)	−36 m
Granges-Paccot	2.7 km	N	597 m (1,959 ft)	−64 m
Corminboeuf	3.5 km	W	651 m (2,136 ft)	−10 m

Peaks and passes near Fribourg

Schafberg, peak at 2,238 m (7,343 ft), 22.5 km to the SE — 1,577 m above the town.
Rotechaste, peak at 2,217 m (7,274 ft), 22.8 km to the SE — 1,556 m above the town.
Ochse, peak at 2,188 m (7,178 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 1,527 m above the town.
Horbüelpass, pass at 1,575 m (5,167 ft), 18 km to the SE.

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

Where Fribourg is

Latitude 46.8016663, longitude 7.1455683. 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 Fribourg'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 627 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.