Elevation of Visp, Valais, Switzerland

Visp, Valais, Switzerland is 649 m (2,129 ft) above sea level.

Visp's height from sea level is 649 metres, or 2,129 feet. GeoNames reads 653 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 653 m to 658 m.

Ground within 4 km

641 m – 2,436 m

Mean 1,345 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,795 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 47

among the towns of Valais, and 192nd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Raron

6.7 km to the W, at 713 m, 64 m higher.

Cross-section through Visp

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 Visp; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,350 m at 12 km west to 1,120 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 3,161 m at 12 km north to 2,184 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Visp, 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 Visp

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Raron	6.7 km	W	713 m (2,339 ft)	+64 m
Brig-Glis	8.1 km	E	701 m (2,300 ft)	+52 m
Naters	9.2 km	E	761 m (2,497 ft)	+112 m
Ried-Brig	10.5 km	E	934 m (3,064 ft)	+285 m
Sankt Niklaus	14.7 km	SW	1,142 m (3,747 ft)	+493 m

Peaks and passes near Visp

Dom, peak at 4,545 m (14,911 ft), 22.4 km to the S — 3,896 m above the town.
Täschhorn, peak at 4,491 m (14,734 ft), 23.6 km to the S — 3,842 m above the town.
Grand Gendarme, peak at 4,331 m (14,209 ft), 24.7 km to the SW — 3,682 m above the town.
Gibidumpass, pass at 2,200 m (7,218 ft), 6 km to the SE.

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

Where Visp is

Latitude 46.2944841, longitude 7.8852075. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Visp'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 653 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.