Elevation of Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland

Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland is 451 m (1,480 ft) above sea level.

Payerne's height from sea level is 451 metres, or 1,480 feet. GeoNames reads 455 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

436 m – 670 m

Mean 490 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 234 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 602nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.5 km to the NE, at 450 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Payerne

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 Payerne; the vertical scale is the same on both.

831391WE24.2 km
West to east: from 600 m at 12 km west to 703 m at 12 km east.
831391NS24.2 km
North to south: from 422 m at 12 km north to 753 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Payerne, 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 Payerne

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Corcelles-près-Payerne 2.5 kmNE 450 m (1,476 ft) −1 m
Estavayer-le-Lac (Fribourg) 7.4 kmW 457 m (1,499 ft) +6 m
Domdidier (Fribourg) 7.6 kmNE 450 m (1,476 ft) −1 m
La Brillaz (Fribourg) 8.8 kmSE 728 m (2,388 ft) +277 m
Grolley (Fribourg) 9.9 kmE 610 m (2,001 ft) +159 m

Peaks and passes near Payerne

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

Where Payerne is

Latitude 46.8223794, longitude 6.938032. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Payerne elevation: 451 m (1,480 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 Payerne'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 455 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.