Elevation of Schenkon, Luzern, Switzerland

Schenkon, Luzern, Switzerland is 521 m (1,709 ft) above sea level.

Schenkon's height from sea level is 521 metres, or 1,709 feet. GeoNames reads 526 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 554 m.

Ground within 4 km

484 m – 800 m

Mean 595 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 316 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 393rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Sursee

1.9 km to the W, at 503 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Schenkon

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 Schenkon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 508 m at 12 km west to 614 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 544 m at 12 km north to 770 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Schenkon, 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 Schenkon

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sursee	1.9 km	W	503 m (1,650 ft)	−18 m
Oberkirch	2.7 km	SW	520 m (1,706 ft)	−1 m
Geuensee	3.1 km	NW	493 m (1,617 ft)	−28 m
Eich	4 km	SE	576 m (1,890 ft)	+55 m
Nottwil	4.7 km	S	516 m (1,693 ft)	−5 m

Peaks and passes near Schenkon

Tomlishorn, peak at 2,128 m (6,982 ft), 24 km to the S — 1,607 m above the town.
Esel, peak at 2,119 m (6,952 ft), 23.9 km to the SE — 1,598 m above the town.
Oberhaupt, peak at 2,106 m (6,909 ft), 23.8 km to the SE — 1,585 m above the town.
Bänkelloch, pass at 623 m (2,044 ft), 12.1 km to the N.

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

Where Schenkon is

Latitude 47.1766999, longitude 8.13169. 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 Schenkon'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 526 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.