Elevation of Grenchen, Solothurn, Switzerland

Grenchen, Solothurn, Switzerland is 469 m (1,539 ft) above sea level.

Grenchen's height from sea level is 469 metres, or 1,539 feet. GeoNames reads 454 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 451 m.

Also written: Granges.

Ground within 4 km

427 m – 1,331 m

Mean 688 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 904 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 43

among the towns of Solothurn, and 536th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Bettlach

2.5 km to the NE, at 508 m, 39 m higher.

Cross-section through Grenchen

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 Grenchen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 773 m at 12 km west to 448 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 750 m at 12 km north to 524 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Grenchen, 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 Grenchen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bettlach	2.5 km	NE	508 m (1,667 ft)	+39 m
Lengnau (Bern)	2.5 km	SW	442 m (1,450 ft)	−27 m
Selzach	4.7 km	E	454 m (1,490 ft)	−15 m
Pieterlen (Bern)	4.9 km	SW	443 m (1,453 ft)	−26 m
Büren an der Aare (Bern)	6.2 km	S	464 m (1,522 ft)	−5 m

Peaks and passes near Grenchen

Le Houbel, peak at 1,503 m (4,931 ft), 24.9 km to the W — 1,034 m above the town.
Hasenmatt, peak at 1,445 m (4,741 ft), 6.8 km to the NE — 976 m above the town.
Stallflue, peak at 1,409 m (4,623 ft), 5.7 km to the NE — 940 m above the town.
Weissenstein, pass at 1,258 m (4,127 ft), 10.9 km to the NE.

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

Where Grenchen is

Latitude 47.193585, longitude 7.3954451. 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 Grenchen'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 454 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.