Elevation of Rivera, Ticino, Switzerland

Rivera, Ticino, Switzerland is 521 m (1,709 ft) above sea level.

Rivera's height from sea level is 521 metres, or 1,709 feet. GeoNames reads 472 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 526 m.

Ground within 4 km

197 m – 1,715 m

Mean 732 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,518 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 53

among the towns of Ticino, and 393rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Cadenazzo

3.6 km to the NE, at 211 m, 310 m lower.

Cross-section through Rivera

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 Rivera; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 547 m at 12 km west to 1,407 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 2,113 m at 12 km north to 357 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Rivera, 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 Rivera

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Cadenazzo	3.6 km	NE	211 m (692 ft)	−310 m
Cugnasco-Gerra	4.8 km	N	207 m (679 ft)	−314 m
Sant'Antonino	5.1 km	NE	233 m (764 ft)	−288 m
Magadino	5.4 km	NW	357 m (1,171 ft)	−164 m
Torricella-Taverne	6.3 km	S	527 m (1,729 ft)	+6 m

Peaks and passes near Rivera

Pizzo di Claro, peak at 2,727 m (8,947 ft), 21.7 km to the NE — 2,206 m above the town.
Piz di Campedell, peak at 2,724 m (8,937 ft), 24.8 km to the NE — 2,203 m above the town.
Forcel, peak at 2,577 m (8,455 ft), 24.8 km to the NE — 2,056 m above the town.
Monte Ceneri, pass at 556 m (1,824 ft), 2.1 km to the NW.

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

Where Rivera is

Latitude 46.1235177, longitude 8.9236878. 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 Rivera'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 472 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.