Elevation of Horw, Luzern, Switzerland

Horw, Luzern, Switzerland is 445 m (1,460 ft) above sea level.

Horw's height from sea level is 445 metres, or 1,460 feet. GeoNames reads 441 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

431 m – 1,718 m

Mean 597 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,287 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

51st of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 629th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Kriens

2.6 km to the NW, at 524 m, 79 m higher.

Cross-section through Horw

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 Horw; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 843 m at 12 km west to 431 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 507 m at 12 km north to 903 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Horw, 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 Horw

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kriens	2.6 km	NW	524 m (1,719 ft)	+79 m
Hergiswil (Nidwalden)	3.2 km	S	446 m (1,463 ft)	+1 m
Luzern	3.6 km	N	443 m (1,453 ft)	−2 m
Stansstad (Nidwalden)	4.9 km	SE	434 m (1,424 ft)	−11 m
Littau	4.9 km	NW	478 m (1,568 ft)	+33 m

Peaks and passes near Horw

Uri Rotstock, peak at 2,929 m (9,610 ft), 24.5 km to the SE — 2,484 m above the town.
Wissigstock, peak at 2,887 m (9,472 ft), 24.4 km to the SE — 2,442 m above the town.
Schlieren, peak at 2,830 m (9,285 ft), 24 km to the SE — 2,385 m above the town.
Renggpass, pass at 885 m (2,904 ft), 4.8 km to the S.

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

Where Horw is

Latitude 47.0181026, longitude 8.3078647. 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 Horw'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 441 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.