Elevation of Herisau, Appenzell-Outer Rhoden, Switzerland
Herisau, Appenzell-Outer Rhoden, Switzerland is 770 m (2,526 ft) above sea level.
Herisau's height from sea level is 770 metres, or 2,526 feet. GeoNames reads 780 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 738 m to 771 m.
Also written: Hérisau.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 778 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 395 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Appenzell-Outer Rhoden, and 98th of 995 in Switzerland.
Cross-section through Herisau
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 Herisau; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Herisau
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gossau (Saint Gall) | 3.5 km | NW | 640 m (2,100 ft) | −130 m |
| Gaiserwald (Saint Gall) | 5.1 km | NE | 644 m (2,113 ft) | −126 m |
| Andwil (Saint Gall) | 5.7 km | N | 696 m (2,283 ft) | −74 m |
| Degersheim (Saint Gall) | 6.4 km | W | 845 m (2,772 ft) | +75 m |
| Saint Gall (Saint Gall) | 7.8 km | NE | 706 m (2,316 ft) | −64 m |
Peaks and passes near Herisau
- Säntis, peak at 2,502 m (8,209 ft), 16 km to the S — 1,732 m above the town.
- Altmann, peak at 2,435 m (7,989 ft), 17.7 km to the S — 1,665 m above the town.
- Altmannkamm, peak at 2,410 m (7,907 ft), 17.5 km to the S — 1,640 m above the town.
- Gerensattel, pass at 1,001 m (3,284 ft), 10.7 km to the SW.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Herisau is
Latitude 47.3870066, longitude 9.2824809. 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 Herisau'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 780 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.