Elevation of Kerns, Obwalden, Switzerland
Kerns, Obwalden, Switzerland is 566 m (1,857 ft) above sea level.
Kerns's height from sea level is 566 metres, or 1,857 feet. GeoNames reads 564 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 563 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 745 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,354 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Kerns
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 Kerns; 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 Kerns
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarnen | 2.5 km | W | 481 m (1,578 ft) | −85 m |
| Alpnach | 4 km | N | 468 m (1,535 ft) | −98 m |
| Sachseln | 4.9 km | SW | 473 m (1,552 ft) | −93 m |
| Ennetmoos (Nidwalden) | 7.6 km | NE | 556 m (1,824 ft) | −10 m |
| Wolfenschiessen (Nidwalden) | 8 km | E | 610 m (2,001 ft) | +44 m |
Peaks and passes near Kerns
- Titlis, peak at 3,238 m (10,623 ft), 19.1 km to the SE — 2,672 m above the town.
- Gross Spannort, peak at 3,198 m (10,492 ft), 22.9 km to the SE — 2,632 m above the town.
- Chli Spannort, peak at 3,135 m (10,285 ft), 22.8 km to the SE — 2,569 m above the town.
- Ächerli, pass at 1,395 m (4,577 ft), 5.2 km to the E.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Kerns is
Latitude 46.9033888, longitude 8.2758008. 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 Kerns'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 564 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.