Elevation of Orbe, Vaud, Switzerland

Orbe, Vaud, Switzerland is 446 m (1,463 ft) above sea level.

Orbe's height from sea level is 446 metres, or 1,463 feet. GeoNames reads 477 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 477 m.

Ground within 4 km

431 m – 756 m

Mean 504 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 325 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

49th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 623rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Chavornay

3.4 km to the SE, at 460 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Orbe

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 Orbe; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 867 m at 12 km west to 661 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,402 m at 12 km north to 487 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Orbe, 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 Orbe

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chavornay	3.4 km	SE	460 m (1,509 ft)	+14 m
La Sarraz	7.4 km	S	501 m (1,644 ft)	+55 m
Montagny (Fribourg)	8.9 km	NE	429 m (1,407 ft)	−17 m
Yverdon	10.2 km	NE	434 m (1,424 ft)	−12 m
Sainte-Croix	11.1 km	N	1,077 m (3,533 ft)	+631 m

Peaks and passes near Orbe

Mont Tendre, peak at 1,679 m (5,509 ft), 22.4 km to the SW — 1,233 m above the town.
Le Chasseron, peak at 1,607 m (5,272 ft), 14.1 km to the N — 1,161 m above the town.
Le Suchet, peak at 1,588 m (5,210 ft), 7.4 km to the NW — 1,142 m above the town.
Col des Etroits, pass at 1,152 m (3,780 ft), 12 km to the N.

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

Where Orbe is

Latitude 46.7249203, longitude 6.5344015. 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 Orbe'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 477 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.