Elevation of Aarwangen, Bern, Switzerland

Aarwangen, Bern, Switzerland is 456 m (1,496 ft) above sea level.

Aarwangen's height from sea level is 456 metres, or 1,496 feet. GeoNames reads 454 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

413 m – 551 m

Mean 469 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 138 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

115th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 585th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.5 km to the SE, at 477 m, 21 m higher.

Cross-section through Aarwangen

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 Aarwangen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

841386WE24.1 km
West to east: from 424 m at 12 km west to 507 m at 12 km east.
841386NS24.1 km
North to south: from 809 m at 12 km north to 711 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Aarwangen, 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 Aarwangen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Langenthal 2.5 kmSE 477 m (1,565 ft) +21 m
Thunstetten 3.9 kmS 499 m (1,637 ft) +43 m
Roggwil 4.2 kmE 468 m (1,535 ft) +12 m
Wolfwil (Solothurn) 4.7 kmNE 423 m (1,388 ft) −33 m
Lotzwil 5 kmS 503 m (1,650 ft) +47 m

Peaks and passes near Aarwangen

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

Where Aarwangen is

Latitude 47.2333333, longitude 7.7666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Aarwangen elevation: 456 m (1,496 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 Aarwangen'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.