Elevation of Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland is 515 m (1,690 ft) above sea level.

Lausanne's height from sea level is 515 metres, or 1,690 feet. GeoNames reads 453 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 453 m.

Ground within 4 km

370 m – 858 m

Mean 514 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 488 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 405th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Pully

2.4 km to the SE, at 451 m, 64 m lower.

Cross-section through Lausanne

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lausanne; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 388 m at 12 km west to 729 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 623 m at 12 km north to 495 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lausanne, 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 Lausanne

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Pully	2.4 km	SE	451 m (1,480 ft)	−64 m
Prilly	2.9 km	NW	492 m (1,614 ft)	−23 m
Belmont-sur-Lausanne	3.4 km	E	608 m (1,995 ft)	+93 m
Renens	3.8 km	NW	429 m (1,407 ft)	−86 m
Le Mont-sur-Lausanne	3.8 km	N	661 m (2,169 ft)	+146 m

Peaks and passes near Lausanne

Les Cornettes de Bise, peak at 2,432 m (7,979 ft), 23.8 km to the SE — 1,917 m above the town.
Rochers de Chaudin, peak at 2,276 m (7,467 ft), 24.3 km to the SE — 1,761 m above the town.
La Dent d'Oche, peak at 2,222 m (7,290 ft), 20 km to the S — 1,707 m above the town.
Col de la Croix, pass at 1,757 m (5,764 ft), 21.7 km to the SE.

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

Where Lausanne is

Latitude 46.5199617, longitude 6.6335971. 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 Lausanne'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 453 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.