Elevation of Sachseln, Obwalden, Switzerland

Sachseln, Obwalden, Switzerland is 473 m (1,552 ft) above sea level.

Sachseln's height from sea level is 473 metres, or 1,552 feet. GeoNames reads 477 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 477 m.

Ground within 4 km

465 m – 1,865 m

Mean 865 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,400 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 7

among the towns of Obwalden, and 522nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Sarnen

3.2 km to the N, at 481 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Sachseln

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 Sachseln; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,622 m at 12 km west to 943 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,169 m at 12 km north to 1,791 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Sachseln, 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 Sachseln

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sarnen	3.2 km	N	481 m (1,578 ft)	+8 m
Kerns	4.9 km	NE	566 m (1,857 ft)	+93 m
Giswil	6 km	SW	488 m (1,601 ft)	+15 m
Alpnach	8.3 km	N	468 m (1,535 ft)	−5 m
Wolfenschiessen (Nidwalden)	10.7 km	E	610 m (2,001 ft)	+137 m

Peaks and passes near Sachseln

Hinter Tierberg, peak at 3,445 m (11,302 ft), 24.1 km to the SE — 2,972 m above the town.
Gwächtenhorn, peak at 3,403 m (11,165 ft), 23.8 km to the SE — 2,930 m above the town.
Mittler Tierberg, peak at 3,309 m (10,856 ft), 23.2 km to the SE — 2,836 m above the town.
Wenglihals, pass at 1,560 m (5,118 ft), 6.2 km to the NW.

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

Where Sachseln is

Latitude 46.868202, longitude 8.2374182. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Sachseln'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 477 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.