Elevation of Solothurn, Switzerland

Solothurn, Switzerland is 449 m (1,473 ft) above sea level.

Solothurn's height from sea level is 449 metres, or 1,473 feet. GeoNames reads 440 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Soleure.

Ground within 4 km

426 m – 1,256 m

Mean 561 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 830 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 43

among the towns of Solothurn, and 611th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Zuchwil

1.9 km to the E, at 433 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Solothurn

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 Solothurn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 668 m at 12 km west to 487 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 839 m at 12 km north to 491 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Solothurn, 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 Solothurn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Zuchwil	1.9 km	E	433 m (1,421 ft)	−16 m
Langendorf	2.3 km	NW	491 m (1,611 ft)	+42 m
Bellach	3 km	W	442 m (1,450 ft)	−7 m
Riedholz	3.4 km	NE	474 m (1,555 ft)	+25 m
Luterbach	3.8 km	E	432 m (1,417 ft)	−17 m

Peaks and passes near Solothurn

Hasenmatt, peak at 1,445 m (4,741 ft), 7.6 km to the NW — 996 m above the town.
Stallflue, peak at 1,409 m (4,623 ft), 8.6 km to the NW — 960 m above the town.
Grenchenberg, peak at 1,405 m (4,610 ft), 12.9 km to the W — 956 m above the town.
Weissenstein, pass at 1,258 m (4,127 ft), 5.5 km to the NW.

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

Where Solothurn is

Latitude 47.2086574, longitude 7.5379549. 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 Solothurn'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 440 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.