Elevation of Lungern, Obwalden, Switzerland

Lungern, Obwalden, Switzerland is 730 m (2,395 ft) above sea level.

Lungern's height from sea level is 730 metres, or 2,395 feet. GeoNames reads 716 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

488 m – 1,913 m

Mean 1,167 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,425 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 7

among the towns of Obwalden, and 129th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Giswil

5.4 km to the N, at 488 m, 242 m lower.

Cross-section through Lungern

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 Lungern; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,109 m at 12 km west to 1,771 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,597 m at 12 km north to 2,059 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lungern, 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 Lungern

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Giswil	5.4 km	N	488 m (1,601 ft)	−242 m
Meiringen (Bern)	6.8 km	S	642 m (2,106 ft)	−88 m
Brienz (Bern)	10.4 km	W	574 m (1,883 ft)	−156 m
Sachseln	10.9 km	NE	473 m (1,552 ft)	−257 m
Sarnen	13.9 km	NE	481 m (1,578 ft)	−249 m

Peaks and passes near Lungern

Schreckhorn, peak at 4,078 m (13,379 ft), 22 km to the S — 3,348 m above the town.
Lauteraarhorn, peak at 4,042 m (13,261 ft), 22.7 km to the S — 3,312 m above the town.
Nässihorn, peak at 3,741 m (12,274 ft), 21.6 km to the S — 3,011 m above the town.
Schonegg, pass at 1,952 m (6,404 ft), 3.5 km to the SE.

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

Where Lungern is

Latitude 46.7858435, longitude 8.1597474. 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 Lungern'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 716 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.