Elevation of Vechigen, Bern, Switzerland

Vechigen, Bern, Switzerland is 575 m (1,886 ft) above sea level.

Vechigen's height from sea level is 575 metres, or 1,886 feet. GeoNames reads 605 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 605 m.

Ground within 4 km

513 m – 886 m

Mean 683 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 373 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

65th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 287th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Stettlen

1.8 km to the W, at 609 m, 34 m higher.

Cross-section through Vechigen

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 Vechigen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 558 m at 12 km west to 837 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 501 m at 12 km north to 607 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Vechigen, 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 Vechigen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Stettlen	1.8 km	W	609 m (1,998 ft)	+34 m
Worb	3 km	SE	591 m (1,939 ft)	+16 m
Ostermundigen	4.5 km	W	551 m (1,808 ft)	−24 m
Bolligen	4.8 km	NW	688 m (2,257 ft)	+113 m
Walkringen	5.3 km	E	707 m (2,320 ft)	+132 m

Peaks and passes near Vechigen

Obere Gurnigel, peak at 1,548 m (5,079 ft), 23.7 km to the S — 973 m above the town.
Ober Gurnigel, peak at 1,548 m (5,079 ft), 24.3 km to the S — 973 m above the town.
Chnubelegg, hill at 1,428 m (4,685 ft), 24.8 km to the SE — 853 m above the town.
Schallenberg, pass at 1,168 m (3,832 ft), 23.7 km to the SE.

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

Where Vechigen is

Latitude 46.9544427, longitude 7.5475006. 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 Vechigen'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 605 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.