Elevation of Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva, Switzerland is 389 m (1,276 ft) above sea level.

Geneva's height from sea level is 389 metres, or 1,276 feet. GeoNames reads 400 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Genève Genf Ginevra Ginebra.

Ground within 4 km

370 m – 703 m

Mean 416 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 333 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 31

among the towns of Geneva, and 889th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Carouge

1.9 km to the S, at 395 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Geneva

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 Geneva; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 411 m at 12 km west to 494 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 471 m at 12 km north to 879 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Geneva, 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 Geneva

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Carouge	1.9 km	S	395 m (1,296 ft)	+6 m
Lancy	2.3 km	SW	406 m (1,332 ft)	+17 m
Chêne-Bougeries	3.3 km	E	420 m (1,378 ft)	+31 m
Onex	3.7 km	SW	424 m (1,391 ft)	+35 m
Plan-les-Ouates	4 km	SW	403 m (1,322 ft)	+14 m

Peaks and passes near Geneva

Crêt de la Neige, peak at 1,717 m (5,633 ft), 17.5 km to the NW — 1,328 m above the town.
Le Reculet, peak at 1,717 m (5,633 ft), 17.6 km to the W — 1,328 m above the town.
Le Colomby de Gex, peak at 1,688 m (5,538 ft), 17.8 km to the NW — 1,299 m above the town.
Col de la Croisette, pass at 1,174 m (3,852 ft), 9.1 km to the S.

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

Where Geneva is

Latitude 46.1983922, longitude 6.1422961. 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 Geneva'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 400 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.