Elevation of Grandson, Vaud, Switzerland

Grandson, Vaud, Switzerland is 471 m (1,545 ft) above sea level.

Grandson's height from sea level is 471 metres, or 1,545 feet. GeoNames reads 445 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

422 m – 1,175 m

Mean 535 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 753 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 529th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the S, at 434 m, 37 m lower.

Cross-section through Grandson

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Grandson; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,372351WE24.2 km
West to east: from 1,070 m at 12 km west to 424 m at 12 km east.
1,372351NS24.2 km
North to south: from 924 m at 12 km north to 671 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Grandson, 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 Grandson

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Yverdon 3.7 kmS 434 m (1,424 ft) −37 m
Montagny (Fribourg) 4.1 kmSW 429 m (1,407 ft) −42 m
Yvonand 7.5 kmE 437 m (1,434 ft) −34 m
Fleurier (Neuchâtel) 11.1 kmNW 744 m (2,441 ft) +273 m
Sainte-Croix 11.2 kmW 1,077 m (3,533 ft) +606 m

Peaks and passes near Grandson

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

Where Grandson is

Latitude 46.8110809, longitude 6.6486418. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Grandson elevation: 471 m (1,545 ft) above sea level

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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 Grandson'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 445 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.