Elevation of Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland

Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland is 493 m (1,617 ft) above sea level.

Thalwil's height from sea level is 493 metres, or 1,617 feet. GeoNames reads 468 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

402 m – 818 m

Mean 527 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 416 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

44th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 457th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Rüschlikon

1.9 km to the NW, at 465 m, 28 m lower.

Cross-section through Thalwil

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 Thalwil; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 475 m at 12 km west to 669 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 429 m at 12 km north to 701 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Thalwil, 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 Thalwil

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rüschlikon	1.9 km	NW	465 m (1,526 ft)	−28 m
Oberrieden	2.1 km	SE	430 m (1,411 ft)	−63 m
Langnau am Albis	2.1 km	W	520 m (1,706 ft)	+27 m
Erlenbach	3.1 km	NE	529 m (1,736 ft)	+36 m
Küsnacht	3.5 km	NE	471 m (1,545 ft)	−22 m

Peaks and passes near Thalwil

Wildspitz, peak at 1,580 m (5,184 ft), 23 km to the S — 1,087 m above the town.
Rossberg, peak at 1,568 m (5,144 ft), 23.1 km to the S — 1,075 m above the town.
Gnipen, peak at 1,567 m (5,141 ft), 23.3 km to the S — 1,074 m above the town.
Albispass, pass at 791 m (2,595 ft), 3.6 km to the SW.

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

Where Thalwil is

Latitude 47.2914196, longitude 8.5638529. 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 Thalwil'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 468 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.