Elevation of Saanen, Bern, Switzerland

Saanen, Bern, Switzerland is 1,026 m (3,366 ft) above sea level.

Saanen's height from sea level is 1,026 metres, or 3,366 feet. GeoNames reads 1,010 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,010 m.

Ground within 4 km

1,022 m – 1,788 m

Mean 1,387 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 766 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 38th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Château-d'Oex

10.4 km to the W, at 933 m, 93 m lower.

Cross-section through Saanen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Saanen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,212 m at 12 km west to 1,526 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,289 m at 12 km north to 2,074 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Saanen, 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 Saanen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Château-d'Oex (Vaud)	10.4 km	W	933 m (3,061 ft)	−93 m
Zweisimmen	11.1 km	NE	936 m (3,071 ft)	−90 m
Lenk	13.6 km	E	1,130 m (3,707 ft)	+104 m
Charmey (Fribourg)	16.1 km	NW	879 m (2,884 ft)	−147 m
Gruyères (Fribourg)	17.7 km	NW	778 m (2,552 ft)	−248 m

Peaks and passes near Saanen

Wildhorn, peak at 3,248 m (10,656 ft), 16.7 km to the SE — 2,222 m above the town.
Mittelgipfel, peak at 3,243 m (10,640 ft), 22.4 km to the SE — 2,217 m above the town.
Wildstrubel, peak at 3,243 m (10,640 ft), 22.5 km to the SE — 2,217 m above the town.
Saanenmöser, pass at 1,274 m (4,180 ft), 4 km to the NE.

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

Where Saanen is

Latitude 46.4895082, longitude 7.2647059. 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 Saanen'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 1,010 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.