Elevation of Sempach, Luzern, Switzerland

Sempach, Luzern, Switzerland is 505 m (1,657 ft) above sea level.

Sempach's height from sea level is 505 metres, or 1,657 feet. GeoNames reads 516 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

500 m – 812 m

Mean 617 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 312 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

39th of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 430th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Eich

2.4 km to the NW, at 576 m, 71 m higher.

Cross-section through Sempach

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 Sempach; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 580 m at 12 km west to 512 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 532 m at 12 km north to 832 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Sempach, 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 Sempach

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Eich	2.4 km	NW	576 m (1,890 ft)	+71 m
Hildisrieden	3.2 km	NE	645 m (2,116 ft)	+140 m
Neuenkirch	4.1 km	S	536 m (1,759 ft)	+31 m
Nottwil	4.1 km	W	516 m (1,693 ft)	+11 m
Rain	5.2 km	E	568 m (1,864 ft)	+63 m

Peaks and passes near Sempach

Tomlishorn, peak at 2,128 m (6,982 ft), 18.5 km to the S — 1,623 m above the town.
Esel, peak at 2,119 m (6,952 ft), 18.2 km to the S — 1,614 m above the town.
Oberhaupt, peak at 2,106 m (6,909 ft), 18.1 km to the S — 1,601 m above the town.
Rengg, pass at 960 m (3,150 ft), 16.7 km to the SW.

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

Where Sempach is

Latitude 47.1368114, longitude 8.1912987. 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 Sempach'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 516 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.