Elevation of Oberkirch, Luzern, Switzerland

Oberkirch, Luzern, Switzerland is 520 m (1,706 ft) above sea level.

Oberkirch's height from sea level is 520 metres, or 1,706 feet. GeoNames reads 511 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 511 m.

Ground within 4 km

486 m – 770 m

Mean 578 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 284 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 395th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Sursee

1.8 km to the N, at 503 m, 17 m lower.

Cross-section through Oberkirch

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 Oberkirch; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 544 m at 12 km west to 698 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 603 m at 12 km north to 914 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Oberkirch, 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 Oberkirch

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sursee	1.8 km	N	503 m (1,650 ft)	−17 m
Schenkon	2.7 km	NE	521 m (1,709 ft)	+1 m
Nottwil	2.8 km	SE	516 m (1,693 ft)	−4 m
Eich	4.2 km	E	576 m (1,890 ft)	+56 m
Buttisholz	4.8 km	S	572 m (1,877 ft)	+52 m

Peaks and passes near Oberkirch

Tomlishorn, peak at 2,128 m (6,982 ft), 22.3 km to the SE — 1,608 m above the town.
Esel, peak at 2,119 m (6,952 ft), 22.3 km to the SE — 1,599 m above the town.
Oberhaupt, peak at 2,106 m (6,909 ft), 22.1 km to the SE — 1,586 m above the town.
Bänkelloch, pass at 623 m (2,044 ft), 14.2 km to the N.

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

Where Oberkirch is

Latitude 47.1551, longitude 8.11525. 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 Oberkirch'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 511 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.