Elevation of Pontresina, Graubünden, Switzerland

Pontresina, Graubünden, Switzerland is 1,887 m (6,191 ft) above sea level.

Pontresina's height from sea level is 1,887 metres, or 6,191 feet. GeoNames reads 1,822 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

1,700 m – 2,963 m

Mean 2,237 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,263 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 26

among the towns of Graubünden, and 2nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Sankt Moritz

5.2 km to the W, at 1,830 m, 57 m lower.

Cross-section through Pontresina

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 Pontresina; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,396 m at 12 km west to 2,449 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 2,776 m at 12 km north to 3,183 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Pontresina, 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 Pontresina

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sankt Moritz	5.2 km	W	1,830 m (6,004 ft)	−57 m
Samedan	5.4 km	NW	1,788 m (5,866 ft)	−99 m
Poschiavo	21.7 km	SE	1,176 m (3,858 ft)	−711 m
Davos	34.7 km	N	1,649 m (5,410 ft)	−238 m
Sondrio (Italy)	35.7 km	S	314 m (1,030 ft)	−1,573 m

Peaks and passes near Pontresina

Piz Bernina, peak at 4,048 m (13,281 ft), 12.2 km to the S — 2,161 m above the town.
Spalla (La Spedla), peak at 4,020 m (13,189 ft), 12.3 km to the S — 2,133 m above the town.
La Spedla, peak at 4,018 m (13,182 ft), 12.3 km to the S — 2,131 m above the town.
Fuorcla dal Mort, pass at 2,726 m (8,944 ft), 3.1 km to the NE.

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

Where Pontresina is

Latitude 46.4916367, longitude 9.9037351. 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 Pontresina'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 1,822 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.