Elevation of Walchwil, Zug, Switzerland

Walchwil, Zug, Switzerland is 478 m (1,568 ft) above sea level.

Walchwil's height from sea level is 478 metres, or 1,568 feet. GeoNames reads 479 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 479 m.

Ground within 4 km

411 m – 1,303 m

Mean 657 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 892 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 11

among the towns of Zug, and 500th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Arth

4.3 km to the S, at 417 m, 61 m lower.

Cross-section through Walchwil

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 Walchwil; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 530 m at 12 km west to 725 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 574 m at 12 km north to 431 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Walchwil, 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 Walchwil

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Arth (Schwyz)	4.3 km	S	417 m (1,368 ft)	−61 m
Risch	5.3 km	NW	422 m (1,385 ft)	−56 m
Küssnacht (Schwyz)	6.2 km	SW	439 m (1,440 ft)	−39 m
Unterägeri	6.4 km	NE	737 m (2,418 ft)	+259 m
Zug	8.1 km	N	418 m (1,371 ft)	−60 m

Peaks and passes near Walchwil

Hoh Brisen, peak at 2,413 m (7,917 ft), 23 km to the S — 1,935 m above the town.
Brisen, peak at 2,404 m (7,887 ft), 23 km to the S — 1,926 m above the town.
Chaisertor, peak at 2,360 m (7,743 ft), 24.7 km to the SE — 1,882 m above the town.
Chatzenbergegg, pass at 953 m (3,127 ft), 1.8 km to the E.

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

Where Walchwil is

Latitude 47.101445, longitude 8.515756. 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 Walchwil'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 479 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.