Elevation of Lucens, Vaud, Switzerland

Lucens, Vaud, Switzerland is 550 m (1,804 ft) above sea level.

Lucens's height from sea level is 550 metres, or 1,804 feet. GeoNames reads 498 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

472 m – 819 m

Mean 637 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 347 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 337th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Moudon

5.4 km to the SW, at 543 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Lucens

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 Lucens; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 576 m at 12 km west to 698 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 481 m at 12 km north to 742 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lucens, 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 Lucens

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Moudon	5.4 km	SW	543 m (1,781 ft)	−7 m
Romont (Fribourg)	6.1 km	E	710 m (2,329 ft)	+160 m
Siviriez (Fribourg)	7.4 km	SE	732 m (2,402 ft)	+182 m
Ursy (Fribourg)	8.2 km	S	763 m (2,503 ft)	+213 m
Vuisternens-devant-Romont (Fribourg)	9.8 km	SE	778 m (2,552 ft)	+228 m

Peaks and passes near Lucens

Le Moléson, peak at 2,002 m (6,568 ft), 22.4 km to the SE — 1,452 m above the town.
Teysachaux, peak at 1,909 m (6,263 ft), 22.9 km to the SE — 1,359 m above the town.
La Vudalla, peak at 1,670 m (5,479 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 1,120 m above the town.

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

Where Lucens is

Latitude 46.7084722, longitude 6.8378161. 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 Lucens'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 498 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.