Elevation of Sion, Valais, Switzerland

Sion, Valais, Switzerland is 500 m (1,640 ft) above sea level.

Sion's height from sea level is 500 metres, or 1,640 feet. GeoNames reads 487 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 515 m.

Also written: Sitten.

Ground within 4 km

482 m – 1,934 m

Mean 911 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,452 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 441st of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Savièse

2.4 km to the NW, at 762 m, 262 m higher.

Cross-section through Sion

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sion; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,335 m at 12 km west to 1,893 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 3,106 m at 12 km north to 3,017 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Sion, 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 Sion

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Savièse	2.4 km	NW	762 m (2,500 ft)	+262 m
Vex	3.4 km	SE	999 m (3,278 ft)	+499 m
Grimisuat	3.8 km	NE	898 m (2,946 ft)	+398 m
Conthey	4.5 km	W	495 m (1,624 ft)	−5 m
Saint-Léonard	5.2 km	NE	516 m (1,693 ft)	+16 m

Peaks and passes near Sion

Le Pleureur, peak at 3,704 m (12,152 ft), 23.7 km to the S — 3,204 m above the town.
Dent de Perroc, peak at 3,676 m (12,060 ft), 24.5 km to the SE — 3,176 m above the town.
Pointe des Genevois, peak at 3,674 m (12,054 ft), 24.8 km to the SE — 3,174 m above the town.
Les Brechets, pass at 2,618 m (8,589 ft), 10.6 km to the E.

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

Where Sion is

Latitude 46.2293518, longitude 7.3620487. 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 Sion'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 487 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.