Elevation of Luzern, Switzerland

Luzern, Switzerland is 443 m (1,453 ft) above sea level.

Luzern's height from sea level is 443 metres, or 1,453 feet. GeoNames reads 437 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Lucerne Lucerna.

Ground within 4 km

420 m – 962 m

Mean 489 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 542 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

53rd of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 643rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Kriens

3.2 km to the SW, at 524 m, 81 m higher.

Cross-section through Luzern

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 Luzern; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 661 m at 12 km west to 630 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 551 m at 12 km north to 612 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Luzern, 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 Luzern

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kriens	3.2 km	SW	524 m (1,719 ft)	+81 m
Horw	3.6 km	S	445 m (1,460 ft)	+2 m
Littau	3.8 km	W	478 m (1,568 ft)	+35 m
Emmen	4.2 km	NW	450 m (1,476 ft)	+7 m
Ebikon	4.3 km	NE	427 m (1,401 ft)	−16 m

Peaks and passes near Luzern

Ruchstock, peak at 2,813 m (9,229 ft), 24.6 km to the SE — 2,370 m above the town.
Oberberg, peak at 2,782 m (9,127 ft), 24.8 km to the SE — 2,339 m above the town.
Laucherenstock, peak at 2,639 m (8,658 ft), 24.3 km to the SE — 2,196 m above the town.
Renggpass, pass at 885 m (2,904 ft), 8.4 km to the S.

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

Where Luzern is

Latitude 47.0503348, longitude 8.3156129. 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 Luzern'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 437 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.