Elevation of Vaz, Graubünden, Switzerland

Vaz, Graubünden, Switzerland is 1,644 m (5,394 ft) above sea level.

Vaz's height from sea level is 1,644 metres, or 5,394 feet. GeoNames reads 1,355 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: VaźObervaz Vaz Obervaz.

Ground within 4 km

913 m – 2,397 m

Mean 1,650 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,484 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 26

among the towns of Graubünden, and 10th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Thusis

8.2 km to the W, at 746 m, 898 m lower.

Cross-section through Vaz

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 Vaz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,111 m at 12 km west to 2,482 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 663 m at 12 km north to 2,085 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Vaz, 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 Vaz

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Thusis	8.2 km	W	746 m (2,448 ft)	−898 m
Arosa	12.3 km	NE	1,737 m (5,699 ft)	+93 m
Domat	14.6 km	NW	578 m (1,896 ft)	−1,066 m
Bonaduz	15 km	NW	654 m (2,146 ft)	−990 m
Felsberg	15.2 km	N	602 m (1,975 ft)	−1,042 m

Peaks and passes near Vaz

Piz Calderas, peak at 3,396 m (11,142 ft), 23.3 km to the SE — 1,752 m above the town.
Piz d'Err, peak at 3,377 m (11,079 ft), 22.3 km to the SE — 1,733 m above the town.
Piz Ela, peak at 3,338 m (10,951 ft), 18.1 km to the SE — 1,694 m above the town.
Lenzerheidepass, pass at 1,547 m (5,075 ft), 2.8 km to the NE.

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

Where Vaz is

Latitude 46.7170789, longitude 9.5401715. 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 Vaz'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 1,355 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.