Elevation of Tavannes, Bern, Switzerland

Tavannes, Bern, Switzerland is 780 m (2,559 ft) above sea level.

Tavannes's height from sea level is 780 metres, or 2,559 feet. GeoNames reads 763 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 763 m.

Ground within 4 km

660 m – 1,229 m

Mean 912 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 569 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 90th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Reconvilier

2.5 km to the NE, at 759 m, 21 m lower.

Cross-section through Tavannes

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 Tavannes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,018 m at 12 km west to 1,191 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 667 m at 12 km north to 425 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Tavannes, 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 Tavannes

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Reconvilier	2.5 km	NE	759 m (2,490 ft)	−21 m
Sonceboz-Sombeval	2.9 km	SW	674 m (2,211 ft)	−106 m
Malleray	5.8 km	E	716 m (2,349 ft)	−64 m
Bévilard	6.7 km	E	823 m (2,700 ft)	+43 m
Tramelan	7.5 km	W	922 m (3,025 ft)	+142 m

Peaks and passes near Tavannes

Petit Chasseral, hill at 1,571 m (5,154 ft), 14 km to the SW — 791 m above the town.
Le Houbel, peak at 1,503 m (4,931 ft), 12.6 km to the SW — 723 m above the town.
La Cornette, hill at 1,494 m (4,902 ft), 16 km to the SW — 714 m above the town.
Col de Pierre Pertuis, pass at 827 m (2,713 ft), 1.2 km to the S.

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

Where Tavannes is

Latitude 47.22008, longitude 7.1985. 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 Tavannes'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 763 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.