Elevation of Balerna, Ticino, Switzerland

Balerna, Ticino, Switzerland is 274 m (899 ft) above sea level.

Balerna's height from sea level is 274 metres, or 899 feet. GeoNames reads 302 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

243 m – 1,035 m

Mean 463 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 792 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 53

among the towns of Ticino, and 982nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Morbio Inferiore

1 km to the NE, at 358 m, 84 m higher.

Cross-section through Balerna

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 Balerna; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 347 m at 12 km west to 718 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,019 m at 12 km north to 326 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Balerna, 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 Balerna

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Morbio Inferiore	1 km	NE	358 m (1,175 ft)	+84 m
Chiasso	1.7 km	SE	245 m (804 ft)	−29 m
Coldrerio	2 km	NW	351 m (1,152 ft)	+77 m
Castel San Pietro	2 km	N	437 m (1,434 ft)	+163 m
Novazzano	2.2 km	W	339 m (1,112 ft)	+65 m

Peaks and passes near Balerna

Cima di Fojorina, peak at 1,810 m (5,938 ft), 24.3 km to the N — 1,536 m above the town.
Il Torrione, peak at 1,805 m (5,922 ft), 24.4 km to the N — 1,531 m above the town.
Cima Mosè, peak at 1,727 m (5,666 ft), 24.6 km to the N — 1,453 m above the town.
Colma di Sormano, pass at 1,124 m (3,688 ft), 17.7 km to the E.

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

Where Balerna is

Latitude 45.8432502, longitude 9.0082122. 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 Balerna'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 302 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.