Elevation of Lachen, Schwyz, Switzerland

Lachen, Schwyz, Switzerland is 427 m (1,401 ft) above sea level.

Lachen's height from sea level is 427 metres, or 1,401 feet. GeoNames reads 412 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 413 m.

Ground within 4 km

402 m – 1,214 m

Mean 610 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 812 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 21

among the towns of Schwyz, and 742nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Galgenen

1.9 km to the SE, at 431 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Lachen

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 Lachen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 603 m at 12 km west to 407 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 699 m at 12 km north to 961 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lachen, 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 Lachen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Galgenen	1.9 km	SE	431 m (1,414 ft)	+4 m
Altendorf	2 km	W	460 m (1,509 ft)	+33 m
Wangen (Solothurn)	2.9 km	E	449 m (1,473 ft)	+22 m
Rapperswil-Jona (Saint Gall)	4.6 km	N	425 m (1,394 ft)	−2 m
Schübelbach	5.6 km	E	459 m (1,506 ft)	+32 m

Peaks and passes near Lachen

Glärnisch, peak at 2,915 m (9,564 ft), 24 km to the SE — 2,488 m above the town.
Bächistock, peak at 2,915 m (9,564 ft), 24.3 km to the SE — 2,488 m above the town.
Vrenelisgärtli, peak at 2,905 m (9,531 ft), 23.8 km to the SE — 2,478 m above the town.
Etzelpass, pass at 949 m (3,114 ft), 6.6 km to the W.

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

Where Lachen is

Latitude 47.1913302, longitude 8.8560037. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Lachen'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 412 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.