Elevation of Gais, Appenzell-Outer Rhoden, Switzerland
Gais, Appenzell-Outer Rhoden, Switzerland is 949 m (3,114 ft) above sea level.
Gais's height from sea level is 949 metres, or 3,114 feet. GeoNames reads 924 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 924 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 974 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 485 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Appenzell-Outer Rhoden, and 47th of 995 in Switzerland.
Cross-section through Gais
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 Gais; 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 Gais
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appenzell (Appenzell Inner-Rhoden) | 5 km | SW | 786 m (2,579 ft) | −163 m |
| Rüte (Appenzell Inner-Rhoden) | 5.3 km | S | 844 m (2,769 ft) | −105 m |
| Speicher | 5.7 km | N | 907 m (2,976 ft) | −42 m |
| Teufen | 6 km | NW | 829 m (2,720 ft) | −120 m |
| Schwende (Appenzell Inner-Rhoden) | 6.6 km | S | 859 m (2,818 ft) | −90 m |
Peaks and passes near Gais
- Säntis, peak at 2,502 m (8,209 ft), 15.2 km to the SW — 1,553 m above the town.
- Altmann, peak at 2,435 m (7,989 ft), 15.1 km to the SW — 1,486 m above the town.
- Altmannkamm, peak at 2,410 m (7,907 ft), 15 km to the SW — 1,461 m above the town.
- Stoss, pass at 953 m (3,127 ft), 1.8 km to the E.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Gais is
Latitude 47.36228, longitude 9.45591. 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 Gais'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 924 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.