Elevation of Morges, Vaud, Switzerland

Morges, Vaud, Switzerland is 386 m (1,266 ft) above sea level.

Morges's height from sea level is 386 metres, or 1,266 feet. GeoNames reads 380 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

370 m – 531 m

Mean 421 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 161 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

74th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 894th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

1.5 km to the SW, at 404 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through Morges

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 Morges; the vertical scale is the same on both.

644349WE24.3 km
West to east: from 588 m at 12 km west to 401 m at 12 km east.
644349NS24.3 km
North to south: from 579 m at 12 km north to 398 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Morges, 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 Morges

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tolochenaz 1.5 kmSW 404 m (1,325 ft) +18 m
Lonay 2.4 kmNE 426 m (1,398 ft) +40 m
Préverenges 2.7 kmE 403 m (1,322 ft) +17 m
Echandens 4.4 kmNE 413 m (1,355 ft) +27 m
Saint-Prex 4.7 kmSW 388 m (1,273 ft) +2 m

Peaks and passes near Morges

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

Where Morges is

Latitude 46.5152627, longitude 6.4929214. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Morges elevation: 386 m (1,266 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 Morges'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 380 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.