Elevation of Laufen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

Laufen, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland is 357 m (1,171 ft) above sea level.

Laufen's height from sea level is 357 metres, or 1,171 feet. GeoNames reads 354 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 354 m.

Ground within 4 km

347 m – 779 m

Mean 513 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 432 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 32

among the towns of Basel-Landschaft, and 929th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the W, at 438 m, 81 m higher.

Cross-section through Laufen

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 Laufen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,023276WE24.1 km
West to east: from 700 m at 12 km west to 716 m at 12 km east.
1,023276NS24.1 km
North to south: from 339 m at 12 km north to 971 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Laufen, 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 Laufen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Röschenz 2.1 kmW 438 m (1,437 ft) +81 m
Zwingen 2.9 kmNE 354 m (1,161 ft) −3 m
Breitenbach (Solothurn) 3.4 kmE 393 m (1,289 ft) +36 m
Büsserach (Solothurn) 4.1 kmSE 413 m (1,355 ft) +56 m
Hofstetten-Flüh (Solothurn) 6.4 kmN 486 m (1,594 ft) +129 m

Peaks and passes near Laufen

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

Where Laufen is

Latitude 47.4190981, longitude 7.5023683. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Laufen elevation: 357 m (1,171 ft) above sea level

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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 Laufen'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 354 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.