Elevation of Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland

Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland is 253 m (830 ft) above sea level.

Bellinzona's height from sea level is 253 metres, or 830 feet. GeoNames reads 230 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Bellenz.

Ground within 4 km

215 m – 1,599 m

Mean 644 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,384 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

46th of 53

among the towns of Ticino, and 988th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Arbedo-Castione

2.4 km to the NE, at 311 m, 58 m higher.

Cross-section through Bellinzona

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 Bellinzona; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,113 m at 12 km west to 1,449 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,889 m at 12 km north to 1,157 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Bellinzona, 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 Bellinzona

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Arbedo-Castione	2.4 km	NE	311 m (1,020 ft)	+58 m
Monte Carasso	2.7 km	SW	280 m (919 ft)	+27 m
Giubiasco	3.2 km	SW	264 m (866 ft)	+11 m
Sementina	3.8 km	SW	340 m (1,115 ft)	+87 m
Camorino	4.2 km	SW	276 m (906 ft)	+23 m

Peaks and passes near Bellinzona

Torrone d'Orza, peak at 2,956 m (9,698 ft), 16.7 km to the N — 2,703 m above the town.
Filo di Remia, peak at 2,939 m (9,642 ft), 22.6 km to the N — 2,686 m above the town.
Pizzo del Ramulazz, peak at 2,915 m (9,564 ft), 23 km to the N — 2,662 m above the town.
Passo di Ruscada, pass at 2,071 m (6,795 ft), 8.3 km to the NW.

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

Where Bellinzona is

Latitude 46.1984944, longitude 9.0269178. 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 Bellinzona'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 230 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.