Elevation of Sursee, Luzern, Switzerland

Sursee, Luzern, Switzerland is 503 m (1,650 ft) above sea level.

Sursee's height from sea level is 503 metres, or 1,650 feet. GeoNames reads 503 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

483 m – 800 m

Mean 573 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 317 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 435th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Oberkirch

1.8 km to the S, at 520 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through Sursee

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 Sursee; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 503 m at 12 km west to 756 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 590 m at 12 km north to 736 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Sursee, 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 Sursee

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Oberkirch	1.8 km	S	520 m (1,706 ft)	+17 m
Schenkon	1.9 km	E	521 m (1,709 ft)	+18 m
Geuensee	3.2 km	N	493 m (1,617 ft)	−10 m
Knutwil	4.2 km	NW	554 m (1,818 ft)	+51 m
Nottwil	4.5 km	SE	516 m (1,693 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Sursee

Tomlishorn, peak at 2,128 m (6,982 ft), 24 km to the SE — 1,625 m above the town.
Esel, peak at 2,119 m (6,952 ft), 24 km to the SE — 1,616 m above the town.
Oberhaupt, peak at 2,106 m (6,909 ft), 23.9 km to the SE — 1,603 m above the town.
Bänkelloch, pass at 623 m (2,044 ft), 12.5 km to the N.

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

Where Sursee is

Latitude 47.1700754, longitude 8.1079092. 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 Sursee'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 503 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.