Elevation of Riddes, Valais, Switzerland

Riddes, Valais, Switzerland is 485 m (1,591 ft) above sea level.

Riddes's height from sea level is 485 metres, or 1,591 feet. GeoNames reads 499 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

465 m – 2,121 m

Mean 969 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,656 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 485th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Leytron

2.3 km to the N, at 500 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Riddes

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 Riddes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,086 m at 12 km west to 1,848 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,687 m at 12 km north to 1,445 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Riddes, 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 Riddes

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Leytron	2.3 km	N	500 m (1,640 ft)	+15 m
Saillon	2.6 km	W	477 m (1,565 ft)	−8 m
Saxon	3.7 km	SW	541 m (1,775 ft)	+56 m
Chamoson	3.7 km	N	681 m (2,234 ft)	+196 m
Ardon	5.8 km	NE	564 m (1,850 ft)	+79 m

Peaks and passes near Riddes

Mont Blanc de Cheilon, peak at 3,870 m (12,697 ft), 24.7 km to the SE — 3,385 m above the town.
Combin de Corbassière, peak at 3,715 m (12,188 ft), 21.6 km to the S — 3,230 m above the town.
Le Pleureur, peak at 3,704 m (12,152 ft), 20.4 km to the SE — 3,219 m above the town.
Croix de Coeur, pass at 2,174 m (7,133 ft), 5.1 km to the S.

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

Where Riddes is

Latitude 46.1666667, longitude 7.2166667. 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 Riddes'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 499 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.