Elevation of Sargans, Saint Gall, Switzerland

Sargans, Saint Gall, Switzerland is 487 m (1,598 ft) above sea level.

Sargans's height from sea level is 487 metres, or 1,598 feet. GeoNames reads 487 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 487 m.

Ground within 4 km

476 m – 1,927 m

Mean 883 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,451 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 65

among the towns of Saint Gall, and 480th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Mels

1.6 km to the W, at 500 m, 13 m higher.

Cross-section through Sargans

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 Sargans; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,991 m at 12 km west to 2,247 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 663 m at 12 km north to 1,531 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Sargans, 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 Sargans

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mels	1.6 km	W	500 m (1,640 ft)	+13 m
Vilters-Wangs	2.6 km	S	488 m (1,601 ft)	+1 m
Balzers (Liechtenstein)	5.1 km	E	477 m (1,565 ft)	−10 m
Wartau	5.7 km	NE	637 m (2,090 ft)	+150 m
Bad Ragaz	6.4 km	SE	500 m (1,640 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Sargans

Ringelspitz, peak at 3,247 m (10,653 ft), 18.2 km to the SW — 2,760 m above the town.
Glaserhorn, peak at 3,127 m (10,259 ft), 18.1 km to the SW — 2,640 m above the town.
Piz da Sterls, peak at 3,114 m (10,217 ft), 18.7 km to the SW — 2,627 m above the town.
Fürggli, pass at 1,745 m (5,725 ft), 4.9 km to the SW.

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

Where Sargans is

Latitude 47.0476096, longitude 9.4400067. 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 Sargans'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 487 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.