Elevation of Wangen, Schwyz, Switzerland

Wangen, Schwyz, Switzerland is 445 m (1,460 ft) above sea level.

Wangen's height from sea level is 445 metres, or 1,460 feet. GeoNames reads 420 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 420 m.

Also written: Wangen bei Olten.

Ground within 4 km

395 m – 869 m

Mean 554 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 474 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 21

among the towns of Schwyz, and 629th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Hägendorf

2.1 km to the SW, at 459 m, 14 m higher.

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 973 m at 12 km west to 447 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 434 m at 12 km north to 557 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
Hägendorf (Solothurn)	2.1 km	SW	459 m (1,506 ft)	+14 m
Kappel (Solothurn)	2.7 km	SW	436 m (1,430 ft)	−9 m
Trimbach (Solothurn)	3.4 km	NE	407 m (1,335 ft)	−38 m
Aarburg (Aargau)	3.5 km	SE	412 m (1,352 ft)	−33 m
Olten (Solothurn)	3.8 km	E	434 m (1,424 ft)	−11 m

Peaks and passes near Wangen

Chamben, peak at 1,251 m (4,104 ft), 23.6 km to the W — 806 m above the town.
Hällchöpfli, peak at 1,232 m (4,042 ft), 18 km to the W — 787 m above the town.
Hornegg, peak at 1,225 m (4,019 ft), 24.4 km to the W — 780 m above the town.
Rumpelhöchi, pass at 678 m (2,224 ft), 1.6 km to the N.

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

Where Wangen is

Latitude 47.343, longitude 7.87018. 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 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 420 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.