Elevation of Lens, Valais, Switzerland

Lens, Valais, Switzerland is 1,124 m (3,688 ft) above sea level.

Lens's height from sea level is 1,124 metres, or 3,688 feet. GeoNames reads 1,177 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

494 m – 2,143 m

Mean 1,048 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,649 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 29th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Chermignon

2.4 km to the NE, at 1,085 m, 39 m lower.

Cross-section through Lens

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 Lens; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,283 m at 12 km west to 1,378 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,596 m at 12 km north to 1,164 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lens, 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 Lens

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chermignon	2.4 km	NE	1,085 m (3,560 ft)	−39 m
Ayent	2.7 km	W	1,114 m (3,655 ft)	−10 m
Grône	3.2 km	S	508 m (1,667 ft)	−616 m
Saint-Léonard	3.5 km	SW	516 m (1,693 ft)	−608 m
Montana	3.9 km	NE	1,207 m (3,960 ft)	+83 m

Peaks and passes near Lens

Balmhorn, peak at 3,698 m (12,133 ft), 24.9 km to the NE — 2,574 m above the town.
Altels, peak at 3,629 m (11,906 ft), 24.3 km to the NE — 2,505 m above the town.
Les Diablons, peak at 3,608 m (11,837 ft), 23 km to the SE — 2,484 m above the town.
Col de Pochet, pass at 2,490 m (8,169 ft), 8.7 km to the NE.

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

Where Lens is

Latitude 46.279491, longitude 7.4465457. 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 Lens'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 1,177 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.