Elevation of Montana, Valais, Switzerland

Montana, Valais, Switzerland is 1,207 m (3,960 ft) above sea level.

Montana's height from sea level is 1,207 metres, or 3,960 feet. GeoNames reads 1,495 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,495 m.

Ground within 4 km

505 m – 2,225 m

Mean 1,125 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,720 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 21st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

1.6 km to the SW, at 1,085 m, 122 m lower.

Cross-section through Montana

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Montana; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,002331WE24.3 km
West to east: from 1,932 m at 12 km west to 758 m at 12 km east.
3,002331NS24.3 km
North to south: from 1,380 m at 12 km north to 2,614 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Montana, 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 Montana

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chermignon 1.6 kmSW 1,085 m (3,560 ft) −122 m
Randogne 1.7 kmN 1,478 m (4,849 ft) +271 m
Sierre 3.6 kmE 532 m (1,745 ft) −675 m
Chalais 3.9 kmS 645 m (2,116 ft) −562 m
Veyras 3.9 kmE 665 m (2,182 ft) −542 m

Peaks and passes near Montana

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

Where Montana is

Latitude 46.2977243, longitude 7.4899137. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Montana elevation: 1,207 m (3,960 ft) above sea level

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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 Montana'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 1,495 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.