Elevation of Avenches, Vaud, Switzerland

Avenches, Vaud, Switzerland is 451 m (1,480 ft) above sea level.

Avenches's height from sea level is 451 metres, or 1,480 feet. GeoNames reads 478 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

423 m – 647 m

Mean 491 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 224 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 602nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Domdidier

2.5 km to the SW, at 450 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Avenches

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 Avenches; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 482 m at 12 km west to 638 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 433 m at 12 km north to 725 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Avenches, 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 Avenches

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Domdidier (Fribourg)	2.5 km	SW	450 m (1,476 ft)	−1 m
Grolley (Fribourg)	5.6 km	S	610 m (2,001 ft)	+159 m
Courtepin (Fribourg)	6.6 km	E	585 m (1,919 ft)	+134 m
Corcelles-près-Payerne	7.6 km	SW	450 m (1,476 ft)	−1 m
Murten (Fribourg)	8.2 km	NE	448 m (1,470 ft)	−3 m

Peaks and passes near Avenches

Käsenberg, peak at 1,633 m (5,358 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 1,182 m above the town.
Le Soliat, peak at 1,464 m (4,803 ft), 24.6 km to the W — 1,013 m above the town.
La Chaille, hill at 1,451 m (4,760 ft), 23.1 km to the W — 1,000 m above the town.
Col de la Tourne, pass at 1,169 m (3,835 ft), 22.9 km to the NW.

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

Where Avenches is

Latitude 46.8800298, longitude 7.0404199. 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 Avenches'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 478 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.