Elevation of Safnern, Bern, Switzerland

Safnern, Bern, Switzerland is 492 m (1,614 ft) above sea level.

Safnern's height from sea level is 492 metres, or 1,614 feet. GeoNames reads 435 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

428 m – 987 m

Mean 553 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 559 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

103rd of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 463rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Orpund

1.8 km to the SW, at 435 m, 57 m lower.

Cross-section through Safnern

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 Safnern; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 795 m at 12 km west to 566 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 882 m at 12 km north to 603 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Safnern, 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 Safnern

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Orpund	1.8 km	SW	435 m (1,427 ft)	−57 m
Pieterlen	2.9 km	N	443 m (1,453 ft)	−49 m
Büren an der Aare	3.6 km	E	464 m (1,522 ft)	−28 m
Brügg	4.3 km	SW	433 m (1,421 ft)	−59 m
Studen	4.5 km	S	433 m (1,421 ft)	−59 m

Peaks and passes near Safnern

Petit Chasseral, hill at 1,571 m (5,154 ft), 20.1 km to the W — 1,079 m above the town.
Le Houbel, peak at 1,503 m (4,931 ft), 18.9 km to the W — 1,011 m above the town.
La Cornette, hill at 1,494 m (4,902 ft), 22 km to the W — 1,002 m above the town.
Col de Pierre Pertuis, pass at 827 m (2,713 ft), 11.8 km to the NW.

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

Where Safnern is

Latitude 47.150509, longitude 7.322704. 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 Safnern'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 435 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.