Elevation of Knonau, Zurich, Switzerland

Knonau, Zurich, Switzerland is 438 m (1,437 ft) above sea level.

Knonau's height from sea level is 438 metres, or 1,437 feet. GeoNames reads 431 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 431 m.

Ground within 4 km

388 m – 659 m

Mean 470 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 271 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

87th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 671st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Mettmenstetten

2.9 km to the N, at 612 m, 174 m higher.

Cross-section through Knonau

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 Knonau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 688 m at 12 km west to 627 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 546 m at 12 km north to 434 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Knonau, 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 Knonau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mettmenstetten	2.9 km	N	612 m (2,008 ft)	+174 m
Steinhausen (Zug)	3.5 km	SE	430 m (1,411 ft)	−8 m
Cham (Zug)	4.9 km	S	422 m (1,385 ft)	−16 m
Aeugst am Albis	5.2 km	N	750 m (2,461 ft)	+312 m
Obfelden	5.3 km	NW	434 m (1,424 ft)	−4 m

Peaks and passes near Knonau

Kulm, peak at 1,797 m (5,896 ft), 18.6 km to the S — 1,359 m above the town.
In den Banderen, peak at 1,727 m (5,666 ft), 18.8 km to the S — 1,289 m above the town.
Hoflue, peak at 1,699 m (5,574 ft), 24.8 km to the S — 1,261 m above the town.
Schnabellücken, pass at 801 m (2,628 ft), 6.9 km to the NE.

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

Where Knonau is

Latitude 47.2236764, longitude 8.4627224. 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 Knonau'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 431 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.