Elevation of Lufingen, Zurich, Switzerland

Lufingen, Zurich, Switzerland is 476 m (1,562 ft) above sea level.

Lufingen's height from sea level is 476 metres, or 1,562 feet. GeoNames reads 457 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

385 m – 609 m

Mean 496 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 224 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

54th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 511th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.5 km to the N, at 425 m, 51 m lower.

Cross-section through Lufingen

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 Lufingen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

716316WE24.1 km
West to east: from 411 m at 12 km west to 502 m at 12 km east.
716316NS24.1 km
North to south: from 367 m at 12 km north to 614 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lufingen, 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 Lufingen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Embrach 2.5 kmN 425 m (1,394 ft) −51 m
Winkel 2.9 kmW 480 m (1,575 ft) +4 m
Bachenbülach 4 kmNW 432 m (1,417 ft) −44 m
Kloten 4 kmS 443 m (1,453 ft) −33 m
Pfungen 4.7 kmNE 453 m (1,486 ft) −23 m

Peaks and passes near Lufingen

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

Where Lufingen is

Latitude 47.4883, longitude 8.59523. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lufingen elevation: 476 m (1,562 ft) above sea level

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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 Lufingen'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 457 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.