Elevation of Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland

Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland is 409 m (1,342 ft) above sea level.

Vernier's height from sea level is 409 metres, or 1,342 feet. GeoNames reads 440 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

373 m – 472 m

Mean 422 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 99 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 31

among the towns of Geneva, and 826th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the N, at 432 m, 23 m higher.

Cross-section through Vernier

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 Vernier; the vertical scale is the same on both.

689346WE24.3 km
West to east: from 483 m at 12 km west to 429 m at 12 km east.
689346NS24.3 km
North to south: from 620 m at 12 km north to 665 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Vernier, 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 Vernier

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Meyrin 2.1 kmN 432 m (1,417 ft) +23 m
Le Grand-Saconnex 3.2 kmNE 431 m (1,414 ft) +22 m
Onex 3.7 kmS 424 m (1,391 ft) +15 m
Satigny 3.8 kmW 410 m (1,345 ft) +1 m
Lancy 4.1 kmSE 406 m (1,332 ft) −3 m

Peaks and passes near Vernier

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

Where Vernier is

Latitude 46.2152, longitude 6.08484. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vernier elevation: 409 m (1,342 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Vernier'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 440 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.