Elevation of Gams, Saint Gall, Switzerland

Gams, Saint Gall, Switzerland is 543 m (1,781 ft) above sea level.

Gams's height from sea level is 543 metres, or 1,781 feet. GeoNames reads 483 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 483 m.

Ground within 4 km

437 m – 2,025 m

Mean 820 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,588 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 65

among the towns of Saint Gall, and 348th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Grabs

2.6 km to the S, at 472 m, 71 m lower.

Cross-section through Gams

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 Gams; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,008 m at 12 km west to 638 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 846 m at 12 km north to 1,462 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Gams, 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 Gams

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Grabs	2.6 km	S	472 m (1,549 ft)	−71 m
Buchs	4.9 km	SE	464 m (1,522 ft)	−79 m
Sennwald	5.5 km	NE	445 m (1,460 ft)	−98 m
Gamprin (Liechtenstein)	5.8 km	E	495 m (1,624 ft)	−48 m
Eschen (Liechtenstein)	6.4 km	E	471 m (1,545 ft)	−72 m

Peaks and passes near Gams

Panüeler Kopf, peak at 2,859 m (9,380 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 2,316 m above the town.
Panüelerkopf, peak at 2,859 m (9,380 ft), 23.8 km to the SE — 2,316 m above the town.
Salaruelkopf, peak at 2,841 m (9,321 ft), 24 km to the SE — 2,298 m above the town.
Mutschensattel, pass at 2,069 m (6,788 ft), 4.4 km to the NW.

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

Where Gams is

Latitude 47.204369, longitude 9.439427. 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 Gams'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 483 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.