Elevation of Basel, Basel-Town, Switzerland

Basel, Basel-Town, Switzerland is 268 m (879 ft) above sea level.

Basel's height from sea level is 268 metres, or 879 feet. GeoNames reads 279 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 260 m.

Also written: Basle Basilea Bâle.

Ground within 4 km

243 m – 414 m

Mean 283 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 171 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

984th of 995

among the towns of Switzerland with a reading.

Nearest town

Birsfelden

2.7 km to the E, at 260 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through Basel

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 Basel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 372 m at 12 km west to 338 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 321 m at 12 km north to 678 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Basel, 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 Basel

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Birsfelden (Basel-Landschaft)	2.7 km	E	260 m (853 ft)	−8 m
Binningen (Basel-Landschaft)	2.8 km	SW	301 m (988 ft)	+33 m
Saint-Louis (France)	3.8 km	NW	252 m (827 ft)	−16 m
Allschwil (Basel-Landschaft)	4.2 km	W	281 m (922 ft)	+13 m
Bottmingen (Basel-Landschaft)	4.2 km	S	312 m (1,024 ft)	+44 m

Peaks and passes near Basel

Hohe Winde, peak at 1,205 m (3,953 ft), 23.9 km to the S — 937 m above the town.
Vogelberg, hill at 1,204 m (3,950 ft), 22.1 km to the S — 936 m above the town.
Vogelberg (Passwang), peak at 1,204 m (3,950 ft), 22.1 km to the S — 936 m above the town.
Blattepass, pass at 573 m (1,880 ft), 11.2 km to the S.

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

Where Basel is

Latitude 47.557421, longitude 7.5925727. 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 Basel'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 279 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.