Elevation of Porrentruy, Jura, Switzerland

Porrentruy, Jura, Switzerland is 428 m (1,404 ft) above sea level.

Porrentruy's height from sea level is 428 metres, or 1,404 feet. GeoNames reads 425 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

400 m – 807 m

Mean 512 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 407 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 11

among the towns of Jura, and 739th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Alle

4 km to the E, at 463 m, 35 m higher.

Cross-section through Porrentruy

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 Porrentruy; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 568 m at 12 km west to 526 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 402 m at 12 km north to 948 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Porrentruy, 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 Porrentruy

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Alle	4 km	E	463 m (1,519 ft)	+35 m
Courgenay	4.2 km	SE	493 m (1,617 ft)	+65 m
Bassecourt	15.4 km	SE	481 m (1,578 ft)	+53 m
Valentigney (France)	18.5 km	W	325 m (1,066 ft)	−103 m
Audincourt (France)	19 km	W	324 m (1,063 ft)	−104 m

Peaks and passes near Porrentruy

Le Point de Vue, peak at 1,185 m (3,888 ft), 25 km to the S — 757 m above the town.
Montbautier, peak at 1,160 m (3,806 ft), 20.9 km to the S — 732 m above the town.
Rond Rochet, hill at 1,138 m (3,734 ft), 23.7 km to the S — 710 m above the town.
Col de Montvoie, pass at 858 m (2,815 ft), 5.6 km to the S.

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

Where Porrentruy is

Latitude 47.4173938, longitude 7.0752875. 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 Porrentruy'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 425 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.