Elevation of Biel-Benken, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

Biel-Benken, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland is 322 m (1,056 ft) above sea level.

Biel-Benken's height from sea level is 322 metres, or 1,056 feet. GeoNames reads 318 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

289 m – 764 m

Mean 406 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 475 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 32

among the towns of Basel-Landschaft, and 953rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Therwil

2.7 km to the E, at 312 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Biel-Benken

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 Biel-Benken; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 395 m at 12 km west to 516 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 248 m at 12 km north to 716 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Biel-Benken, 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 Biel-Benken

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Therwil	2.7 km	E	312 m (1,024 ft)	−10 m
Oberwil	2.8 km	E	316 m (1,037 ft)	−6 m
Ettingen	3.4 km	SE	354 m (1,161 ft)	+32 m
Hofstetten-Flüh (Solothurn)	3.5 km	S	486 m (1,594 ft)	+164 m
Bottmingen	4 km	NE	312 m (1,024 ft)	−10 m

Peaks and passes near Biel-Benken

Mont Raimeux, peak at 1,302 m (4,272 ft), 23.3 km to the S — 980 m above the town.
Hornegg, peak at 1,225 m (4,019 ft), 23.3 km to the S — 903 m above the town.
Hohe Winde, peak at 1,205 m (3,953 ft), 18.8 km to the S — 883 m above the town.
Blauepass, pass at 818 m (2,684 ft), 5.5 km to the S.

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

Where Biel-Benken is

Latitude 47.5069429, longitude 7.5233472. 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 Biel-Benken'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 318 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.