Elevation of Wichtrach, Bern, Switzerland

Wichtrach, Bern, Switzerland is 556 m (1,824 ft) above sea level.

Wichtrach's height from sea level is 556 metres, or 1,824 feet. GeoNames reads 548 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 541 m to 548 m.

Ground within 4 km

522 m – 842 m

Mean 620 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 320 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

74th of 129

among the towns of Bern, and 324th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Münsingen

3.3 km to the N, at 532 m, 24 m lower.

Cross-section through Wichtrach

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 Wichtrach; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 966 m at 12 km west to 957 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 786 m at 12 km north to 666 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Wichtrach, 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 Wichtrach

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Münsingen	3.3 km	N	532 m (1,745 ft)	−24 m
Konolfingen	5 km	NE	664 m (2,178 ft)	+108 m
Uttigen	5.9 km	S	545 m (1,788 ft)	−11 m
Rubigen	6.4 km	N	541 m (1,775 ft)	−15 m
Toffen	6.7 km	W	623 m (2,044 ft)	+67 m

Peaks and passes near Wichtrach

Drunegalm, peak at 2,408 m (7,900 ft), 24.7 km to the S — 1,852 m above the town.
Fromberghore, peak at 2,394 m (7,854 ft), 24.1 km to the S — 1,838 m above the town.
Niesen, peak at 2,362 m (7,749 ft), 23 km to the S — 1,806 m above the town.
Gurnigelpass, pass at 1,579 m (5,180 ft), 15.5 km to the SW.

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

Where Wichtrach is

Latitude 46.8461629, longitude 7.5766337. 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 Wichtrach'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 548 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.