Elevation of Littau, Luzern, Switzerland

Littau, Luzern, Switzerland is 478 m (1,568 ft) above sea level.

Littau's height from sea level is 478 metres, or 1,568 feet. GeoNames reads 509 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 511 m.

Ground within 4 km

422 m – 1,096 m

Mean 568 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 674 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

48th of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 500th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Kriens

2.3 km to the SE, at 524 m, 46 m higher.

Cross-section through Littau

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 Littau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 810 m at 12 km west to 492 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 521 m at 12 km north to 512 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Littau, 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 Littau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kriens	2.3 km	SE	524 m (1,719 ft)	+46 m
Emmen	3.4 km	N	450 m (1,476 ft)	−28 m
Luzern	3.8 km	E	443 m (1,453 ft)	−35 m
Horw	4.9 km	SE	445 m (1,460 ft)	−33 m
Rothenburg	5.2 km	N	493 m (1,617 ft)	+15 m

Peaks and passes near Littau

Gross Walenstock, peak at 2,573 m (8,442 ft), 24.5 km to the SE — 2,095 m above the town.
Tschudi, peak at 2,511 m (8,238 ft), 24.7 km to the SE — 2,033 m above the town.
Chli Sättelistock, peak at 2,418 m (7,933 ft), 25 km to the SE — 1,940 m above the town.
Tellenfadlücke, pass at 1,381 m (4,531 ft), 8.2 km to the S.

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

Where Littau is

Latitude 47.0507712, longitude 8.2648094. 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 Littau'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 509 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.