Elevation of Benken, Saint Gall, Switzerland

Benken, Saint Gall, Switzerland is 420 m (1,378 ft) above sea level.

Benken's height from sea level is 420 metres, or 1,378 feet. GeoNames reads 437 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

405 m – 1,101 m

Mean 485 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 696 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

56th of 65

among the towns of Saint Gall, and 778th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Kaltbrunn

3.1 km to the NE, at 577 m, 157 m higher.

Cross-section through Benken

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 Benken; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 415 m at 12 km west to 1,407 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 922 m at 12 km north to 1,723 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Benken, 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 Benken

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kaltbrunn	3.1 km	NE	577 m (1,893 ft)	+157 m
Uznach	3.7 km	NW	439 m (1,440 ft)	+19 m
Gommiswald	4.1 km	N	569 m (1,867 ft)	+149 m
Reichenburg (Schwyz)	4.4 km	SW	433 m (1,421 ft)	+13 m
Tuggen (Schwyz)	5.1 km	W	470 m (1,542 ft)	+50 m

Peaks and passes near Benken

Glärnisch, peak at 2,915 m (9,564 ft), 21.9 km to the S — 2,495 m above the town.
Bächistock, peak at 2,915 m (9,564 ft), 22.6 km to the S — 2,495 m above the town.
Vrenelisgärtli, peak at 2,905 m (9,531 ft), 20.9 km to the S — 2,485 m above the town.
Furggli, pass at 1,602 m (5,256 ft), 7.5 km to the E.

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

Where Benken is

Latitude 47.19596, longitude 9.00632. 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 Benken'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 437 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.