Elevation of Gossau, Zurich, Switzerland

Gossau, Zurich, Switzerland is 485 m (1,591 ft) above sea level.

Gossau's height from sea level is 485 metres, or 1,591 feet. GeoNames reads 473 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 473 m.

Ground within 4 km

441 m – 594 m

Mean 513 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 153 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

50th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 485th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Grüningen

2.5 km to the S, at 499 m, 14 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 700 m at 12 km west to 982 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 590 m at 12 km north to 971 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
Grüningen	2.5 km	S	499 m (1,637 ft)	+14 m
Mönchaltorf	3.1 km	W	444 m (1,457 ft)	−41 m
Wetzikon	3.7 km	NE	542 m (1,778 ft)	+57 m
Oetwil am See	4.6 km	SW	542 m (1,778 ft)	+57 m
Egg	5.5 km	W	551 m (1,808 ft)	+66 m

Peaks and passes near Gossau

Gross Aubrig, peak at 1,695 m (5,561 ft), 23.4 km to the SE — 1,210 m above the town.
Chli Aubrig, peak at 1,642 m (5,387 ft), 23.3 km to the S — 1,157 m above the town.
Bögliegg, peak at 1,551 m (5,089 ft), 24.8 km to the S — 1,066 m above the town.
Guldener Höchi, pass at 842 m (2,762 ft), 7.3 km to the W.

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

Where Gossau is

Latitude 47.3051592, longitude 8.7611107. 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 473 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.