Elevation of Meggen, Luzern, Switzerland

Meggen, Luzern, Switzerland is 488 m (1,601 ft) above sea level.

Meggen's height from sea level is 488 metres, or 1,601 feet. GeoNames reads 476 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 476 m.

Ground within 4 km

427 m – 669 m

Mean 492 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 242 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 473rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Adligenswil

2.5 km to the N, at 553 m, 65 m higher.

Cross-section through Meggen

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 Meggen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 497 m at 12 km west to 1,443 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 500 m at 12 km north to 905 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Meggen, 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 Meggen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Adligenswil	2.5 km	N	553 m (1,814 ft)	+65 m
Ebikon	4.4 km	NW	427 m (1,401 ft)	−61 m
Luzern	4.5 km	W	443 m (1,453 ft)	−45 m
Weggis	4.5 km	SE	436 m (1,430 ft)	−52 m
Udligenswil	5 km	NE	595 m (1,952 ft)	+107 m

Peaks and passes near Meggen

Uri Rotstock, peak at 2,929 m (9,610 ft), 24.1 km to the SE — 2,441 m above the town.
Wissigstock, peak at 2,887 m (9,472 ft), 24.8 km to the SE — 2,399 m above the town.
Schlieren, peak at 2,830 m (9,285 ft), 23.6 km to the SE — 2,342 m above the town.
Renggpass, pass at 885 m (2,904 ft), 10.2 km to the SW.

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

Where Meggen is

Latitude 47.0491589, longitude 8.374466. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Meggen'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 476 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.