Elevation of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland is 1,005 m (3,297 ft) above sea level.
La Chaux-de-Fonds's height from sea level is 1,005 metres, or 3,297 feet. GeoNames reads 995 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 997 m to 1,039 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 1,079 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 561 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through La Chaux-de-Fonds
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 La Chaux-de-Fonds; 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 La Chaux-de-Fonds
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Locle | 7.1 km | SW | 990 m (3,248 ft) | −15 m |
| Cernier | 7.4 km | SE | 875 m (2,871 ft) | −130 m |
| Chézard-Saint-Martin | 9.1 km | SE | 737 m (2,418 ft) | −268 m |
| Peseux | 13 km | SE | 566 m (1,857 ft) | −439 m |
| Corcelles-Cormondrèche | 13.2 km | S | 600 m (1,969 ft) | −405 m |
Peaks and passes near La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Petit Chasseral, hill at 1,571 m (5,154 ft), 18.4 km to the E — 566 m above the town.
- Le Houbel, peak at 1,503 m (4,931 ft), 19.8 km to the E — 498 m above the town.
- La Cornette, hill at 1,494 m (4,902 ft), 16.4 km to the E — 489 m above the town.
- Vue des Alpes, pass at 1,283 m (4,209 ft), 4.6 km to the SE.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where La Chaux-de-Fonds is
Latitude 47.0978723, longitude 6.821634. 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 La Chaux-de-Fonds'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 995 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.