Elevation of Wahlern, Bern, Switzerland

Wahlern, Bern, Switzerland is 799 m (2,621 ft) above sea level.

Wahlern's height from sea level is 799 metres, or 2,621 feet. GeoNames reads 825 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 792 m.

Ground within 4 km

640 m – 1,094 m

Mean 807 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 454 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 83rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

6.1 km to the NW, at 665 m, 134 m lower.

Cross-section through Wahlern

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 Wahlern; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,557488WE24.2 km
West to east: from 651 m at 12 km west to 853 m at 12 km east.
1,557488NS24.2 km
North to south: from 562 m at 12 km north to 1,260 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Wahlern, 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 Wahlern

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ueberstorf (Fribourg) 6.1 kmNW 665 m (2,182 ft) −134 m
Sankt Antoni (Fribourg) 6.3 kmW 772 m (2,533 ft) −27 m
Rüeggisberg 6.8 kmE 908 m (2,979 ft) +109 m
Alterswil (Fribourg) 6.9 kmW 767 m (2,516 ft) −32 m
Wünnewil-Flamatt (Fribourg) 8.2 kmNW 588 m (1,929 ft) −211 m

Peaks and passes near Wahlern

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

Where Wahlern is

Latitude 46.8166667, longitude 7.35. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Wahlern elevation: 799 m (2,621 ft) above sea level

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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 Wahlern'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 825 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.