Elevation of Uster, Zurich, Switzerland

Uster, Zurich, Switzerland is 474 m (1,555 ft) above sea level.

Uster's height from sea level is 474 metres, or 1,555 feet. GeoNames reads 469 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 464 m.

Ground within 4 km

433 m – 603 m

Mean 490 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 170 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

56th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 518th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

3.3 km to the NW, at 449 m, 25 m lower.

Cross-section through Uster

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 Uster; the vertical scale is the same on both.

860368WE24.1 km
West to east: from 599 m at 12 km west to 826 m at 12 km east.
860368NS24.1 km
North to south: from 504 m at 12 km north to 402 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Uster, 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 Uster

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Greifensee 3.3 kmNW 449 m (1,473 ft) −25 m
Maur 3.9 kmW 472 m (1,549 ft) −2 m
Mönchaltorf 4.2 kmS 444 m (1,457 ft) −30 m
Fehraltorf 5.2 kmNE 535 m (1,755 ft) +61 m
Volketswil 5.3 kmNW 465 m (1,526 ft) −9 m

Peaks and passes near Uster

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

Where Uster is

Latitude 47.3484905, longitude 8.7175286. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Uster elevation: 474 m (1,555 ft) above sea level

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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 Uster'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 469 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.