Elevation of Root, Luzern, Switzerland

Root, Luzern, Switzerland is 428 m (1,404 ft) above sea level.

Root's height from sea level is 428 metres, or 1,404 feet. GeoNames reads 426 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 426 m.

Ground within 4 km

400 m – 782 m

Mean 516 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 382 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

55th of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 739th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Udligenswil

2.7 km to the S, at 595 m, 167 m higher.

Cross-section through Root

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 Root; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 542 m at 12 km west to 626 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 394 m at 12 km north to 889 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Root, 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 Root

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Udligenswil	2.7 km	S	595 m (1,952 ft)	+167 m
Inwil	3 km	W	419 m (1,375 ft)	−9 m
Buchrain	3.8 km	SW	445 m (1,460 ft)	+17 m
Ebikon	4.9 km	SW	427 m (1,401 ft)	−1 m
Adligenswil	5.2 km	S	553 m (1,814 ft)	+125 m

Peaks and passes near Root

Hoh Brisen, peak at 2,413 m (7,917 ft), 24.7 km to the S — 1,985 m above the town.
Brisen, peak at 2,404 m (7,887 ft), 24.5 km to the S — 1,976 m above the town.
Risetenstock, peak at 2,290 m (7,513 ft), 23.9 km to the S — 1,862 m above the town.
Chatzenbergegg, pass at 953 m (3,127 ft), 11.2 km to the E.

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

Where Root is

Latitude 47.1142449, longitude 8.391422. 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 Root'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 426 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.