Elevation of Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland is 279 m (915 ft) above sea level.

Lugano's height from sea level is 279 metres, or 915 feet. GeoNames reads 284 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Lauis.

Ground within 4 km

272 m – 1,189 m

Mean 446 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 917 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

40th of 53

among the towns of Ticino, and 980th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Massagno

1 km to the NW, at 374 m, 95 m higher.

Cross-section through Lugano

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lugano; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 468 m at 12 km west to 420 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,116 m at 12 km north to 559 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lugano, 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 Lugano

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Massagno	1 km	NW	374 m (1,227 ft)	+95 m
Savosa	1.5 km	N	443 m (1,453 ft)	+164 m
Sorengo	1.6 km	SW	373 m (1,224 ft)	+94 m
Paradiso	1.9 km	S	370 m (1,214 ft)	+91 m
Vezia	2.4 km	NW	362 m (1,188 ft)	+83 m

Peaks and passes near Lugano

Cima d'Erbea, peak at 2,338 m (7,671 ft), 24.6 km to the N — 2,059 m above the town.
Marmontana, peak at 2,315 m (7,595 ft), 24.9 km to the NE — 2,036 m above the town.
Pizzo di Gino, peak at 2,245 m (7,365 ft), 19.8 km to the NE — 1,966 m above the town.
Forcola, pass at 1,117 m (3,665 ft), 10.2 km to the W.

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

Where Lugano is

Latitude 46.0065117, longitude 8.9523121. 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 Lugano'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 284 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.