Elevation of Orsières, Valais, Switzerland

Orsières, Valais, Switzerland is 922 m (3,025 ft) above sea level.

Orsières's height from sea level is 922 metres, or 3,025 feet. GeoNames reads 897 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

798 m – 2,417 m

Mean 1,512 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,619 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 54th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Bagnes

9.3 km to the NE, at 1,403 m, 481 m higher.

Cross-section through Orsières

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Orsières; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,019 m at 12 km west to 2,101 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 498 m at 12 km north to 2,697 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Orsières, 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 Orsières

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bagnes	9.3 km	NE	1,403 m (4,603 ft)	+481 m
Martigny	9.6 km	NW	469 m (1,539 ft)	−453 m
Martigny-Combe	10.1 km	NW	1,157 m (3,796 ft)	+235 m
Fully	12.5 km	N	532 m (1,745 ft)	−390 m
Saxon	13.1 km	N	541 m (1,775 ft)	−381 m

Peaks and passes near Orsières

Combin de Grafeneire, peak at 4,313 m (14,150 ft), 15.7 km to the SE — 3,391 m above the town.
Aiguille du Croissant, peak at 4,259 m (13,973 ft), 15.6 km to the SE — 3,337 m above the town.
Les Grandes Jorasses, peak at 4,208 m (13,806 ft), 21.7 km to the SW — 3,286 m above the town.
Col de Champex, pass at 1,496 m (4,908 ft), 3 km to the W.

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

Where Orsières is

Latitude 46.0303899, longitude 7.1457499. 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 Orsières'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 897 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.