Elevation of Steinen, Schwyz, Switzerland

Steinen, Schwyz, Switzerland is 465 m (1,526 ft) above sea level.

Steinen's height from sea level is 465 metres, or 1,526 feet. GeoNames reads 477 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 477 m.

Ground within 4 km

440 m – 1,462 m

Mean 763 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,022 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 21

among the towns of Schwyz, and 555th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Sattel

3.8 km to the NE, at 775 m, 310 m higher.

Cross-section through Steinen

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 Steinen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,400 m at 12 km west to 1,497 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 790 m at 12 km north to 439 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Steinen, 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 Steinen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sattel	3.8 km	NE	775 m (2,543 ft)	+310 m
Schwyz	4.3 km	SE	491 m (1,611 ft)	+26 m
Ingenbohl	5.9 km	S	436 m (1,430 ft)	−29 m
Arth	7 km	W	417 m (1,368 ft)	−48 m
Rothenthurm	7.7 km	NE	963 m (3,159 ft)	+498 m

Peaks and passes near Steinen

Brunnistock, peak at 2,952 m (9,685 ft), 22.9 km to the S — 2,487 m above the town.
Blackenstock, peak at 2,930 m (9,613 ft), 23.9 km to the S — 2,465 m above the town.
Uri Rotstock, peak at 2,929 m (9,610 ft), 21.7 km to the S — 2,464 m above the town.
Ränggen, pass at 926 m (3,038 ft), 3.5 km to the S.

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

Where Steinen is

Latitude 47.0497, longitude 8.61212. 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 Steinen'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 477 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.