Elevation of Rothenburg, Luzern, Switzerland

Rothenburg, Luzern, Switzerland is 493 m (1,617 ft) above sea level.

Rothenburg's height from sea level is 493 metres, or 1,617 feet. GeoNames reads 489 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

420 m – 612 m

Mean 506 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 192 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 457th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Emmen

2.2 km to the SE, at 450 m, 43 m lower.

Cross-section through Rothenburg

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 Rothenburg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 812 m at 12 km west to 759 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 550 m at 12 km north to 1,306 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Rothenburg, 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 Rothenburg

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Emmen	2.2 km	SE	450 m (1,476 ft)	−43 m
Rain	3.7 km	N	568 m (1,864 ft)	+75 m
Neuenkirch	5.2 km	W	536 m (1,759 ft)	+43 m
Littau	5.2 km	S	478 m (1,568 ft)	−15 m
Ebikon	6 km	E	427 m (1,401 ft)	−66 m

Peaks and passes near Rothenburg

Tomlishorn, peak at 2,128 m (6,982 ft), 13.9 km to the S — 1,635 m above the town.
Esel, peak at 2,119 m (6,952 ft), 13.2 km to the S — 1,626 m above the town.
Oberhaupt, peak at 2,106 m (6,909 ft), 13.2 km to the S — 1,613 m above the town.
Tellenfadlücke, pass at 1,381 m (4,531 ft), 13.4 km to the S.

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

Where Rothenburg is

Latitude 47.0976472, longitude 8.2695992. 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 Rothenburg'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 489 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.