Elevation of Balsthal, Solothurn, Switzerland

Balsthal, Solothurn, Switzerland is 499 m (1,637 ft) above sea level.

Balsthal's height from sea level is 499 metres, or 1,637 feet. GeoNames reads 493 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

449 m – 1,046 m

Mean 677 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 597 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 43

among the towns of Solothurn, and 446th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Oensingen

3.4 km to the SE, at 459 m, 40 m lower.

Cross-section through Balsthal

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 Balsthal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,083 m at 12 km west to 429 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 517 m at 12 km north to 461 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Balsthal, 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 Balsthal

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Oensingen	3.4 km	SE	459 m (1,506 ft)	−40 m
Mümliswil-Ramiswil	3.4 km	N	626 m (2,054 ft)	+127 m
Niederbipp (Bern)	5.2 km	S	458 m (1,503 ft)	−41 m
Oberbuchsiten	5.4 km	E	536 m (1,759 ft)	+37 m
Wiedlisbach (Bern)	7.7 km	SW	492 m (1,614 ft)	−7 m

Peaks and passes near Balsthal

Hasenmatt, peak at 1,445 m (4,741 ft), 19.9 km to the SW — 946 m above the town.
Stallflue, peak at 1,409 m (4,623 ft), 21.3 km to the SW — 910 m above the town.
Wandflue, peak at 1,399 m (4,590 ft), 23.1 km to the SW — 900 m above the town.
Breitehöchi, pass at 847 m (2,779 ft), 5.5 km to the NE.

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

Where Balsthal is

Latitude 47.3129423, longitude 7.6934684. 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 Balsthal'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 493 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.