Elevation of Schwende, Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, Switzerland

Schwende, Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, Switzerland is 859 m (2,818 ft) above sea level.

Schwende's height from sea level is 859 metres, or 2,818 feet. GeoNames reads 853 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

761 m – 1,785 m

Mean 1,107 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,024 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 4

among the towns of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, and 65th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Rüte

1.3 km to the N, at 844 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Schwende

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 Schwende; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,137 m at 12 km west to 438 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 692 m at 12 km north to 539 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Schwende, 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 Schwende

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rüte	1.3 km	N	844 m (2,769 ft)	−15 m
Appenzell	3.4 km	NW	786 m (2,579 ft)	−73 m
Gais (Appenzell-Outer Rhoden)	6.6 km	N	949 m (3,114 ft)	+90 m
Sennwald (Saint Gall)	7.2 km	SE	445 m (1,460 ft)	−414 m
Rüthi (Saint Gall)	8 km	E	452 m (1,483 ft)	−407 m

Peaks and passes near Schwende

Säntis, peak at 2,502 m (8,209 ft), 9.2 km to the SW — 1,643 m above the town.
Altmann, peak at 2,435 m (7,989 ft), 8.6 km to the SW — 1,576 m above the town.
Altmannkamm, peak at 2,410 m (7,907 ft), 8.6 km to the SW — 1,551 m above the town.
Resspass, pass at 1,309 m (4,295 ft), 4.1 km to the E.

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

Where Schwende is

Latitude 47.3050542, longitude 9.4332621. 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 Schwende'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 853 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.