Elevation of Schwyz, Switzerland

Schwyz, Switzerland is 491 m (1,611 ft) above sea level.

Schwyz's height from sea level is 491 metres, or 1,611 feet. GeoNames reads 521 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

431 m – 1,471 m

Mean 794 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,040 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 21

among the towns of Schwyz, and 468th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Ingenbohl

4.1 km to the SW, at 436 m, 55 m lower.

Cross-section through Schwyz

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 Schwyz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,430 m at 12 km west to 1,337 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,016 m at 12 km north to 1,289 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Schwyz, 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 Schwyz

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ingenbohl	4.1 km	SW	436 m (1,430 ft)	−55 m
Steinen	4.3 km	NW	465 m (1,526 ft)	−26 m
Sattel	6.9 km	N	775 m (2,543 ft)	+284 m
Rothenthurm	9.6 km	N	963 m (3,159 ft)	+472 m
Gersau	9.8 km	W	528 m (1,732 ft)	+37 m

Peaks and passes near Schwyz

Gross Windgällen, peak at 3,187 m (10,456 ft), 24.5 km to the S — 2,696 m above the town.
Brunnistock, peak at 2,952 m (9,685 ft), 20.5 km to the S — 2,461 m above the town.
Chli Ruchen, peak at 2,945 m (9,662 ft), 24.9 km to the SE — 2,454 m above the town.
Zwischenmythen, pass at 1,437 m (4,715 ft), 3.1 km to the NE.

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

Where Schwyz is

Latitude 47.0198346, longitude 8.6473977. 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 Schwyz'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 521 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.