Elevation of Pfungen, Zurich, Switzerland

Pfungen, Zurich, Switzerland is 453 m (1,486 ft) above sea level.

Pfungen's height from sea level is 453 metres, or 1,486 feet. GeoNames reads 420 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

394 m – 668 m

Mean 522 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 274 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

75th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 596th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Neftenbach

2.7 km to the NE, at 446 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Pfungen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pfungen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 415 m at 12 km west to 457 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 410 m at 12 km north to 445 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Pfungen, 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 Pfungen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Neftenbach	2.7 km	NE	446 m (1,463 ft)	−7 m
Embrach	3.7 km	W	425 m (1,394 ft)	−28 m
Lufingen	4.7 km	SW	476 m (1,562 ft)	+23 m
Rorbas	5.2 km	W	385 m (1,263 ft)	−68 m
Brütten	5.3 km	SE	603 m (1,978 ft)	+150 m

Peaks and passes near Pfungen

Schauenberg, hill at 890 m (2,920 ft), 17.9 km to the E — 437 m above the town.
Uetliberg, peak at 870 m (2,854 ft), 21.7 km to the SW — 417 m above the town.
Pfannenstiel, peak at 853 m (2,799 ft), 24.9 km to the S — 400 m above the town.
Lägernsattel, pass at 774 m (2,539 ft), 22 km to the W.

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

Where Pfungen is

Latitude 47.51546, longitude 8.6431734. 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 Pfungen'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 420 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.