Elevation of Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Schaffhausen, Switzerland is 427 m (1,401 ft) above sea level.

Schaffhausen's height from sea level is 427 metres, or 1,401 feet. GeoNames reads 403 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 409 m.

Also written: Schaffhouse.

Ground within 4 km

388 m – 703 m

Mean 501 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 315 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 7

among the towns of Schaffhausen, and 742nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Feuerthalen

2.8 km to the S, at 421 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Schaffhausen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Schaffhausen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 466 m at 12 km west to 572 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 790 m at 12 km north to 432 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Schaffhausen, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 50 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 Schaffhausen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Feuerthalen (Zurich)	2.8 km	S	421 m (1,381 ft)	−6 m
Neuhausen am Rheinfall	3.4 km	SW	404 m (1,325 ft)	−23 m
Dachsen (Zurich)	5.1 km	S	388 m (1,273 ft)	−39 m
Beringen	5.3 km	W	447 m (1,467 ft)	+20 m
Thayngen	6.7 km	NE	442 m (1,450 ft)	+15 m

Peaks and passes near Schaffhausen

Hoher Randen, peak at 930 m (3,051 ft), 10.9 km to the NW — 503 m above the town.
Länge, hill at 921 m (3,022 ft), 19.8 km to the N — 494 m above the town.
Hoher Randen (Südliche Höhe), hill at 920 m (3,018 ft), 9.9 km to the NW — 493 m above the town.
Hengschtsattel, pass at 735 m (2,411 ft), 9.8 km to the N.

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

Where Schaffhausen is

Latitude 47.7077664, longitude 8.6414424. 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 Schaffhausen'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 403 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.