Elevation of Hergiswil, Nidwalden, Switzerland

Hergiswil, Nidwalden, Switzerland is 446 m (1,463 ft) above sea level.

Hergiswil's height from sea level is 446 metres, or 1,463 feet. GeoNames reads 452 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 452 m.

Ground within 4 km

431 m – 1,420 m

Mean 598 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 989 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 10

among the towns of Nidwalden, and 623rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.4 km to the SE, at 434 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Hergiswil

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 Hergiswil; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,815316WE24.2 km
West to east: from 1,403 m at 12 km west to 431 m at 12 km east.
1,815316NS24.2 km
North to south: from 463 m at 12 km north to 1,282 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Hergiswil, 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 Hergiswil

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stansstad 2.4 kmSE 434 m (1,424 ft) −12 m
Horw (Luzern) 3.2 kmN 445 m (1,460 ft) −1 m
Ennetmoos 4.2 kmSE 556 m (1,824 ft) +110 m
Stans 4.2 kmSE 446 m (1,463 ft) same
Kriens (Luzern) 5.3 kmNW 524 m (1,719 ft) +78 m

Peaks and passes near Hergiswil

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

Where Hergiswil is

Latitude 46.9892086, longitude 8.3088945. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hergiswil elevation: 446 m (1,463 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 Hergiswil'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 452 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.