Elevation of Riehen, Basel-Town, Switzerland

Riehen, Basel-Town, Switzerland is 281 m (922 ft) above sea level.

Riehen's height from sea level is 281 metres, or 922 feet. GeoNames reads 280 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 280 m.

Ground within 4 km

251 m – 488 m

Mean 314 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 237 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

976th of 995

among the towns of Switzerland with a reading.

Nearest town

Weil

2.7 km to the NW, at 276 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through Riehen

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 Riehen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 270 m at 12 km west to 370 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 415 m at 12 km north to 659 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Riehen, 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 Riehen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Weil (Germany)	2.7 km	NW	276 m (906 ft)	−5 m
Birsfelden (Basel-Landschaft)	3 km	SW	260 m (853 ft)	−21 m
Basel	4.7 km	SW	268 m (879 ft)	−13 m
Lörrach (Germany)	4.7 km	N	300 m (984 ft)	+19 m
Muttenz (Basel-Landschaft)	5.5 km	S	282 m (925 ft)	+1 m

Peaks and passes near Riehen

Vogelberg (Passwang), peak at 1,204 m (3,950 ft), 23.4 km to the S — 923 m above the town.
Vogelberg, hill at 1,204 m (3,950 ft), 23.4 km to the S — 923 m above the town.
Hinteri Egg, peak at 1,169 m (3,835 ft), 23.3 km to the S — 888 m above the town.
Blattepass, pass at 573 m (1,880 ft), 14.8 km to the SW.

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

Where Riehen is

Latitude 47.5774903, longitude 7.6477865. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Riehen'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 280 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.