Elevation of Gruyères, Fribourg, Switzerland

Gruyères, Fribourg, Switzerland is 778 m (2,552 ft) above sea level.

Gruyères's height from sea level is 778 metres, or 2,552 feet. GeoNames reads 805 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

679 m – 1,642 m

Mean 931 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 963 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 43

among the towns of Fribourg, and 92nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Broc

3.5 km to the NE, at 703 m, 75 m lower.

Cross-section through Gruyères

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gruyères; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,166 m at 12 km west to 1,409 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 782 m at 12 km north to 1,293 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Gruyères, 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 Gruyères

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Broc	3.5 km	NE	703 m (2,306 ft)	−75 m
Bulle	4.2 km	N	768 m (2,520 ft)	−10 m
Vuadens	5.8 km	NW	799 m (2,621 ft)	+21 m
Riaz	6.8 km	N	732 m (2,402 ft)	−46 m
Charmey	7.9 km	NE	879 m (2,884 ft)	+101 m

Peaks and passes near Gruyères

Le Tarent, peak at 2,548 m (8,360 ft), 22.8 km to the S — 1,770 m above the town.
La Pare, peak at 2,540 m (8,333 ft), 22.8 km to the S — 1,762 m above the town.
Châtillon, peak at 2,478 m (8,130 ft), 22.8 km to the S — 1,700 m above the town.
Col des Combes, pass at 1,668 m (5,472 ft), 4 km to the E.

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

Where Gruyères is

Latitude 46.5815, longitude 7.07627. 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 Gruyères'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 805 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.