Elevation of Mels, Saint Gall, Switzerland

Mels, Saint Gall, Switzerland is 500 m (1,640 ft) above sea level.

Mels's height from sea level is 500 metres, or 1,640 feet. GeoNames reads 495 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

463 m – 1,821 m

Mean 951 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,358 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

34th of 65

among the towns of Saint Gall, and 441st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Sargans

1.6 km to the E, at 487 m, 13 m lower.

Cross-section through Mels

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 Mels; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,409 m at 12 km west to 1,731 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 809 m at 12 km north to 2,330 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Mels, 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 Mels

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sargans	1.6 km	E	487 m (1,598 ft)	−13 m
Vilters-Wangs	3.7 km	SE	488 m (1,601 ft)	−12 m
Wartau	6.4 km	NE	637 m (2,090 ft)	+137 m
Balzers (Liechtenstein)	6.5 km	E	477 m (1,565 ft)	−23 m
Flums	7.4 km	NW	445 m (1,460 ft)	−55 m

Peaks and passes near Mels

Ringelspitz, peak at 3,247 m (10,653 ft), 17.9 km to the S — 2,747 m above the town.
Glaserhorn, peak at 3,127 m (10,259 ft), 17.8 km to the S — 2,627 m above the town.
Piz da Sterls, peak at 3,114 m (10,217 ft), 18.2 km to the SW — 2,614 m above the town.
Fürggli, pass at 1,745 m (5,725 ft), 4.4 km to the S.

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

Where Mels is

Latitude 47.0503597, longitude 9.4186146. 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 Mels'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 495 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.