Elevation of Penthalaz, Vaud, Switzerland

Penthalaz, Vaud, Switzerland is 479 m (1,572 ft) above sea level.

Penthalaz's height from sea level is 479 metres, or 1,572 feet. GeoNames reads 455 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 455 m.

Ground within 4 km

411 m – 610 m

Mean 517 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 199 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 78

among the towns of Vaud, and 497th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Cossonay

1.6 km to the W, at 573 m, 94 m higher.

Cross-section through Penthalaz

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Penthalaz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 667 m at 12 km west to 725 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 493 m at 12 km north to 370 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Penthalaz, 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 Penthalaz

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Cossonay	1.6 km	W	573 m (1,880 ft)	+94 m
La Sarraz	5.2 km	N	501 m (1,644 ft)	+22 m
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne	6.4 km	SE	606 m (1,988 ft)	+127 m
Bussigny-près-Lausanne	7.3 km	S	456 m (1,496 ft)	−23 m
Crissier	7.4 km	SE	476 m (1,562 ft)	−3 m

Peaks and passes near Penthalaz

Mont Tendre, peak at 1,679 m (5,509 ft), 16.8 km to the W — 1,200 m above the town.
Le Suchet, peak at 1,588 m (5,210 ft), 18.2 km to the N — 1,109 m above the town.
Grand Cunay, peak at 1,574 m (5,164 ft), 19.9 km to the W — 1,095 m above the town.
Col du Mollendruz, pass at 1,179 m (3,868 ft), 13 km to the W.

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

Where Penthalaz is

Latitude 46.61403, longitude 6.52867. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Penthalaz'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.