Elevation of Wetzikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Wetzikon, Zurich, Switzerland is 542 m (1,778 ft) above sea level.

Wetzikon's height from sea level is 542 metres, or 1,778 feet. GeoNames reads 539 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

450 m – 821 m

Mean 569 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 371 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 350th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the SW, at 485 m, 57 m lower.

Cross-section through Wetzikon

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 Wetzikon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,035355WE24.1 km
West to east: from 534 m at 12 km west to 767 m at 12 km east.
1,035355NS24.1 km
North to south: from 562 m at 12 km north to 412 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Wetzikon, 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 Wetzikon

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gossau 3.7 kmSW 485 m (1,591 ft) −57 m
Hinwil 3.9 kmSE 571 m (1,873 ft) +29 m
Bäretswil 4.6 kmE 749 m (2,457 ft) +207 m
Pfäffikon 4.6 kmN 570 m (1,870 ft) +28 m
Hittnau 5.1 kmN 641 m (2,103 ft) +99 m

Peaks and passes near Wetzikon

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

Where Wetzikon is

Latitude 47.3263066, longitude 8.7997303. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Wetzikon elevation: 542 m (1,778 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 Wetzikon'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 539 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.