Elevation of Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland

Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland is 468 m (1,535 ft) above sea level.

Meilen's height from sea level is 468 metres, or 1,535 feet. GeoNames reads 464 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 464 m.

Ground within 4 km

402 m – 821 m

Mean 535 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 419 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

63rd of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 540th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Uetikon am See

2.4 km to the E, at 560 m, 92 m higher.

Cross-section through Meilen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Meilen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 800 m at 12 km west to 527 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 443 m at 12 km north to 1,069 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Meilen, 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 Meilen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Uetikon am See	2.4 km	E	560 m (1,837 ft)	+92 m
Herrliberg	3.2 km	NW	515 m (1,690 ft)	+47 m
Männedorf	3.8 km	SE	434 m (1,424 ft)	−34 m
Egg	4.4 km	NE	551 m (1,808 ft)	+83 m
Horgen	4.4 km	W	509 m (1,670 ft)	+41 m

Peaks and passes near Meilen

Gross Aubrig, peak at 1,695 m (5,561 ft), 24.8 km to the SE — 1,227 m above the town.
Chli Aubrig, peak at 1,642 m (5,387 ft), 24.1 km to the SE — 1,174 m above the town.
Gschwändstock, peak at 1,614 m (5,295 ft), 24.1 km to the S — 1,146 m above the town.
Guldener Höchi, pass at 842 m (2,762 ft), 3.4 km to the N.

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

Where Meilen is

Latitude 47.2700188, longitude 8.6518765. 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 Meilen'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 464 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.