Elevation of Wangen, Solothurn, Switzerland

Wangen, Solothurn, Switzerland is 449 m (1,473 ft) above sea level.

Wangen's height from sea level is 449 metres, or 1,473 feet. GeoNames reads 425 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Wangen bei Olten.

Ground within 4 km

402 m – 1,164 m

Mean 530 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 762 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 43

among the towns of Solothurn, and 611th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Galgenen

1.8 km to the SW, at 431 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Wangen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wangen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 488 m at 12 km west to 486 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 939 m at 12 km north to 1,295 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Wangen, 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 Wangen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Galgenen (Schwyz)	1.8 km	SW	431 m (1,414 ft)	−18 m
Lachen (Schwyz)	2.9 km	W	427 m (1,401 ft)	−22 m
Schübelbach (Schwyz)	3.2 km	SE	459 m (1,506 ft)	+10 m
Tuggen (Schwyz)	3.6 km	E	470 m (1,542 ft)	+21 m
Altendorf (Schwyz)	4.9 km	W	460 m (1,509 ft)	+11 m

Peaks and passes near Wangen

Glärnisch, peak at 2,915 m (9,564 ft), 23 km to the S — 2,466 m above the town.
Bächistock, peak at 2,915 m (9,564 ft), 23.4 km to the S — 2,466 m above the town.
Vrenelisgärtli, peak at 2,905 m (9,531 ft), 22.6 km to the SE — 2,456 m above the town.
Kirchweghöchi, pass at 638 m (2,093 ft), 7 km to the NE.

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

Where Wangen is

Latitude 47.1933999, longitude 8.89445. 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 Wangen'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 425 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.