Elevation of Le Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland

Le Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland is 431 m (1,414 ft) above sea level.

Le Grand-Saconnex's height from sea level is 431 metres, or 1,414 feet. GeoNames reads 450 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

370 m – 484 m

Mean 419 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 114 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 31

among the towns of Geneva, and 718th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.2 km to the NE, at 399 m, 32 m lower.

Cross-section through Le Grand-Saconnex

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 Le Grand-Saconnex; the vertical scale is the same on both.

736342WE24.3 km
West to east: from 450 m at 12 km west to 442 m at 12 km east.
736342NS24.3 km
North to south: from 555 m at 12 km north to 708 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Le Grand-Saconnex, 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 Le Grand-Saconnex

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pregny-Chambésy 2.2 kmNE 399 m (1,309 ft) −32 m
Meyrin 2.8 kmW 432 m (1,417 ft) +1 m
Vernier 3.2 kmSW 409 m (1,342 ft) −22 m
Bellevue 3.3 kmNE 395 m (1,296 ft) −36 m
Geneva 4.4 kmSE 389 m (1,276 ft) −42 m

Peaks and passes near Le Grand-Saconnex

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

Where Le Grand-Saconnex is

Latitude 46.2333333, longitude 6.1166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Le Grand-Saconnex elevation: 431 m (1,414 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 Le Grand-Saconnex'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 450 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.