Elevation of Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland

Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland is 294 m (965 ft) above sea level.

Locarno's height from sea level is 294 metres, or 965 feet. GeoNames reads 206 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Luggarus.

Ground within 4 km

191 m – 1,640 m

Mean 529 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,449 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 53

among the towns of Ticino, and 971st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Ascona

1.5 km to the SW, at 204 m, 90 m lower.

Cross-section through Locarno

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 Locarno; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 605 m at 12 km west to 207 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 871 m at 12 km north to 869 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Locarno, 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 Locarno

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ascona	1.5 km	SW	204 m (669 ft)	−90 m
Muralto	1.5 km	NE	205 m (673 ft)	−89 m
Losone	2.1 km	W	223 m (732 ft)	−71 m
Minusio	2.5 km	NE	267 m (876 ft)	−27 m
Tenero-Contra	4.6 km	NE	499 m (1,637 ft)	+205 m

Peaks and passes near Locarno

Corona di Redòrta, peak at 2,804 m (9,199 ft), 23.5 km to the N — 2,510 m above the town.
Madone Grosso, peak at 2,741 m (8,993 ft), 22.3 km to the N — 2,447 m above the town.
Madàs, peak at 2,739 m (8,986 ft), 24.5 km to the N — 2,445 m above the town.
Bassa di Cardada, pass at 1,611 m (5,285 ft), 3.9 km to the N.

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

Where Locarno is

Latitude 46.1679583, longitude 8.7889791. 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 Locarno'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 206 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.