Elevation of Greifensee, Zurich, Switzerland

Greifensee, Zurich, Switzerland is 449 m (1,473 ft) above sea level.

Greifensee's height from sea level is 449 metres, or 1,473 feet. GeoNames reads 444 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 444 m.

Ground within 4 km

433 m – 710 m

Mean 487 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 277 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

76th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 611th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Volketswil

2.6 km to the N, at 465 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Greifensee

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 Greifensee; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 480 m at 12 km west to 638 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 523 m at 12 km north to 402 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Greifensee, 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 Greifensee

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Volketswil	2.6 km	N	465 m (1,526 ft)	+16 m
Schwerzenbach	2.7 km	NW	440 m (1,444 ft)	−9 m
Uster	3.3 km	SE	474 m (1,555 ft)	+25 m
Maur	3.3 km	S	472 m (1,549 ft)	+23 m
Fällanden	3.5 km	W	475 m (1,558 ft)	+26 m

Peaks and passes near Greifensee

Höchhand, peak at 1,314 m (4,311 ft), 23.5 km to the E — 865 m above the town.
Schwarzeberg, peak at 1,293 m (4,242 ft), 22.9 km to the E — 844 m above the town.
Schnebelhorn, peak at 1,291 m (4,236 ft), 22.7 km to the E — 842 m above the town.
Guldener Höchi, pass at 842 m (2,762 ft), 7.7 km to the S.

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

Where Greifensee is

Latitude 47.3675699, longitude 8.6847529. 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 Greifensee'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 444 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.