Elevation of Rorbas, Zurich, Switzerland

Rorbas, Zurich, Switzerland is 385 m (1,263 ft) above sea level.

Rorbas's height from sea level is 385 metres, or 1,263 feet. GeoNames reads 384 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 384 m.

Ground within 4 km

381 m – 668 m

Mean 482 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 287 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

122nd of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 900th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Freienstein-Teufen

2.4 km to the N, at 386 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Rorbas

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 Rorbas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 528 m at 12 km west to 430 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 439 m at 12 km north to 434 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Rorbas, 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 Rorbas

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Freienstein-Teufen	2.4 km	N	386 m (1,266 ft)	+1 m
Embrach	2.4 km	SE	425 m (1,394 ft)	+40 m
Bülach	3.2 km	W	424 m (1,391 ft)	+39 m
Bachenbülach	3.8 km	SW	432 m (1,417 ft)	+47 m
Winkel	4.7 km	S	480 m (1,575 ft)	+95 m

Peaks and passes near Rorbas

Lange Rande, peak at 900 m (2,953 ft), 23.5 km to the N — 515 m above the town.
Schauenberg, hill at 890 m (2,920 ft), 23 km to the E — 505 m above the town.
Schlossranden, peak at 890 m (2,920 ft), 24.6 km to the N — 505 m above the town.
Lägernsattel, pass at 774 m (2,539 ft), 17.6 km to the W.

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

Where Rorbas is

Latitude 47.5297683, longitude 8.5779344. 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 Rorbas'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 384 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.