Elevation of Risch, Zug, Switzerland

Risch, Zug, Switzerland is 422 m (1,385 ft) above sea level.

Risch's height from sea level is 422 metres, or 1,385 feet. GeoNames reads 443 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

411 m – 822 m

Mean 451 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 411 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 11

among the towns of Zug, and 772nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Cham

5 km to the N, at 422 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Risch

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Risch; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 469 m at 12 km west to 756 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 580 m at 12 km north to 431 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Risch, 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 Risch

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Cham	5 km	N	422 m (1,385 ft)	same
Walchwil	5.3 km	SE	478 m (1,568 ft)	+56 m
Hünenberg	5.5 km	NW	462 m (1,516 ft)	+40 m
Zug	5.6 km	NE	418 m (1,371 ft)	−4 m
Root (Luzern)	6.2 km	SW	428 m (1,404 ft)	+6 m

Peaks and passes near Risch

Schwalmis, peak at 2,246 m (7,369 ft), 24.2 km to the S — 1,824 m above the town.
Schinberg, peak at 2,145 m (7,037 ft), 24.8 km to the S — 1,723 m above the town.
Tomlishorn, peak at 2,128 m (6,982 ft), 24.8 km to the SW — 1,706 m above the town.
Sätteli, pass at 972 m (3,189 ft), 5.7 km to the E.

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

Where Risch is

Latitude 47.1357768, longitude 8.4666548. 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 Risch'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 443 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.