Elevation of Rüegsau, Bern, Switzerland

Rüegsau, Bern, Switzerland is 680 m (2,231 ft) above sea level.

Rüegsau's height from sea level is 680 metres, or 2,231 feet. GeoNames reads 592 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

546 m – 815 m

Mean 675 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 269 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 169th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Lützelflüh

2.4 km to the SE, at 593 m, 87 m lower.

Cross-section through Rüegsau

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 Rüegsau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 581 m at 12 km west to 932 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 503 m at 12 km north to 732 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Rüegsau, 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 Rüegsau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Lützelflüh	2.4 km	SE	593 m (1,946 ft)	−87 m
Hasle bei Burgdorf	3.4 km	SW	613 m (2,011 ft)	−67 m
Oberburg	4 km	W	552 m (1,811 ft)	−128 m
Sumiswald	5.4 km	E	699 m (2,293 ft)	+19 m
Burgdorf	5.4 km	NW	552 m (1,811 ft)	−128 m

Peaks and passes near Rüegsau

Wachthubel, peak at 1,414 m (4,639 ft), 24.8 km to the SE — 734 m above the town.
Napf, peak at 1,406 m (4,613 ft), 20.3 km to the E — 726 m above the town.
Farnli-Esel, hill at 1,383 m (4,537 ft), 15.7 km to the E — 703 m above the town.
Fritzeflue, pass at 944 m (3,097 ft), 12.7 km to the E.

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

Where Rüegsau is

Latitude 47.0254711, longitude 7.6741415. 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 Rüegsau'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 592 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.