Elevation of Lichtensteig, Saint Gall, Switzerland

Lichtensteig, Saint Gall, Switzerland is 638 m (2,093 ft) above sea level.

Lichtensteig's height from sea level is 638 metres, or 2,093 feet. GeoNames reads 638 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 638 m.

Ground within 4 km

592 m – 1,099 m

Mean 786 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 507 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 65

among the towns of Saint Gall, and 207th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Wattwil

3.1 km to the S, at 658 m, 20 m higher.

Cross-section through Lichtensteig

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 Lichtensteig; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,002 m at 12 km west to 833 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 575 m at 12 km north to 1,199 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lichtensteig, 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 Lichtensteig

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Wattwil	3.1 km	S	658 m (2,159 ft)	+20 m
Bütschwil	3.2 km	NW	640 m (2,100 ft)	+2 m
Mosnang	5.4 km	NW	760 m (2,493 ft)	+122 m
Mogelsberg	5.5 km	NE	751 m (2,464 ft)	+113 m
Ebnat-Kappel	7.4 km	SE	664 m (2,178 ft)	+26 m

Peaks and passes near Lichtensteig

Säntis, peak at 2,502 m (8,209 ft), 21 km to the SE — 1,864 m above the town.
Altmann, peak at 2,435 m (7,989 ft), 23.4 km to the SE — 1,797 m above the town.
Altmannkamm, peak at 2,410 m (7,907 ft), 23.2 km to the SE — 1,772 m above the town.
Wasserfluh, pass at 843 m (2,766 ft), 2 km to the E.

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

Where Lichtensteig is

Latitude 47.3248482, longitude 9.0875951. 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 Lichtensteig'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 638 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.