Elevation of Gossau, Saint Gall, Switzerland

Gossau, Saint Gall, Switzerland is 640 m (2,100 ft) above sea level.

Gossau's height from sea level is 640 metres, or 2,100 feet. GeoNames reads 637 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 646 m.

Ground within 4 km

562 m – 928 m

Mean 713 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 366 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 65

among the towns of Saint Gall, and 203rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Andwil

3 km to the NE, at 696 m, 56 m higher.

Cross-section through Gossau

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 Gossau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 773 m at 12 km west to 816 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 545 m at 12 km north to 1,186 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Gossau, 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 Gossau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Andwil	3 km	NE	696 m (2,283 ft)	+56 m
Herisau (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden)	3.5 km	SE	770 m (2,526 ft)	+130 m
Gaiserwald	4.9 km	E	644 m (2,113 ft)	+4 m
Flawil	5.4 km	W	619 m (2,031 ft)	−21 m
Degersheim	6.2 km	SW	845 m (2,772 ft)	+205 m

Peaks and passes near Gossau

Säntis, peak at 2,502 m (8,209 ft), 19.4 km to the S — 1,862 m above the town.
Altmann, peak at 2,435 m (7,989 ft), 21.2 km to the SE — 1,795 m above the town.
Altmannkamm, peak at 2,410 m (7,907 ft), 21 km to the SE — 1,770 m above the town.
Gerensattel, pass at 1,001 m (3,284 ft), 11.3 km to the SW.

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

Where Gossau is

Latitude 47.4138069, longitude 9.2579168. 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 Gossau'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 637 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.