Elevation of Küsnacht, Zurich, Switzerland

Küsnacht, Zurich, Switzerland is 471 m (1,545 ft) above sea level.

Küsnacht's height from sea level is 471 metres, or 1,545 feet. GeoNames reads 427 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

402 m – 681 m

Mean 510 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 279 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

61st of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 529th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Erlenbach

2.2 km to the SE, at 529 m, 58 m higher.

Cross-section through Küsnacht

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 Küsnacht; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 530 m at 12 km west to 438 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 469 m at 12 km north to 685 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Küsnacht, 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 Küsnacht

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Erlenbach	2.2 km	SE	529 m (1,736 ft)	+58 m
Zollikon	2.5 km	N	489 m (1,604 ft)	+18 m
Rüschlikon	3 km	SW	465 m (1,526 ft)	−6 m
Zumikon	3.1 km	NE	622 m (2,041 ft)	+151 m
Kilchberg	3.1 km	W	472 m (1,549 ft)	+1 m

Peaks and passes near Küsnacht

Samstageren, hill at 1,379 m (4,524 ft), 24.9 km to the S — 908 m above the town.
Hohe Rone, peak at 1,232 m (4,042 ft), 19 km to the SE — 761 m above the town.
Höhronen, peak at 1,229 m (4,032 ft), 19 km to the S — 758 m above the town.
Guldener Höchi, pass at 842 m (2,762 ft), 6.4 km to the E.

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

Where Küsnacht is

Latitude 47.3196525, longitude 8.5855969. 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 Küsnacht'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 427 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.