Elevation of Laupen, Bern, Switzerland

Laupen, Bern, Switzerland is 488 m (1,601 ft) above sea level.

Laupen's height from sea level is 488 metres, or 1,601 feet. GeoNames reads 495 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

477 m – 671 m

Mean 560 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 194 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

105th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 473rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Bösingen

2.1 km to the SW, at 575 m, 87 m higher.

Cross-section through Laupen

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 Laupen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 498 m at 12 km west to 645 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 445 m at 12 km north to 803 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Laupen, 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 Laupen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bösingen (Fribourg)	2.1 km	SW	575 m (1,886 ft)	+87 m
Neuenegg	4.9 km	E	545 m (1,788 ft)	+57 m
Wünnewil-Flamatt (Fribourg)	5 km	SE	588 m (1,929 ft)	+100 m
Mühleberg	5.2 km	NE	607 m (1,991 ft)	+119 m
Gurmels (Fribourg)	5.6 km	W	534 m (1,752 ft)	+46 m

Peaks and passes near Laupen

Selibüel, peak at 1,750 m (5,741 ft), 24.7 km to the SE — 1,262 m above the town.
Schüpfeflue, peak at 1,721 m (5,646 ft), 23.1 km to the SE — 1,233 m above the town.
Pfyffe, peak at 1,665 m (5,463 ft), 21 km to the SE — 1,177 m above the town.
Horbüelpass, pass at 1,575 m (5,167 ft), 21 km to the SE.

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

Where Laupen is

Latitude 46.9072324, longitude 7.2405985. 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 Laupen'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 495 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.