Elevation of Vernayaz, Valais, Switzerland

Vernayaz, Valais, Switzerland is 455 m (1,493 ft) above sea level.

Vernayaz's height from sea level is 455 metres, or 1,493 feet. GeoNames reads 455 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

449 m – 2,346 m

Mean 1,085 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,897 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 589th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Martigny

4.8 km to the SE, at 469 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Vernayaz

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vernayaz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,548 m at 12 km west to 630 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 623 m at 12 km north to 2,668 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Vernayaz, 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 Vernayaz

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Martigny	4.8 km	SE	469 m (1,539 ft)	+14 m
Martigny-Combe	5.5 km	S	1,157 m (3,796 ft)	+702 m
Fully	7 km	E	532 m (1,745 ft)	+77 m
Saint-Maurice	9.2 km	N	423 m (1,388 ft)	−32 m
Saxon	11.4 km	E	541 m (1,775 ft)	+86 m

Peaks and passes near Vernayaz

Aiguille Verte, peak at 4,122 m (13,524 ft), 22.5 km to the S — 3,667 m above the town.
Aiguille d'Argentière, peak at 3,896 m (12,782 ft), 19.3 km to the S — 3,441 m above the town.
Aiguille de Triolet, peak at 3,870 m (12,697 ft), 24 km to the S — 3,415 m above the town.
Col du Jorat, pass at 2,212 m (7,257 ft), 4.1 km to the NW.

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

Where Vernayaz is

Latitude 46.1333333, longitude 7.0333333. 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 Vernayaz'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 455 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.