Elevation of Willisau Stadt, Luzern, Switzerland

Willisau Stadt, Luzern, Switzerland is 564 m (1,850 ft) above sea level.

Willisau Stadt's height from sea level is 564 metres, or 1,850 feet. GeoNames reads 558 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 557 m.

Also written: Willisau.

Ground within 4 km

503 m – 800 m

Mean 620 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 297 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 310th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Ettiswil

3.8 km to the NE, at 519 m, 45 m lower.

Cross-section through Willisau Stadt

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 Willisau Stadt; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 672 m at 12 km west to 680 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 586 m at 12 km north to 959 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Willisau Stadt, 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 Willisau Stadt

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ettiswil	3.8 km	NE	519 m (1,703 ft)	−45 m
Grosswangen	4.6 km	E	540 m (1,772 ft)	−24 m
Menznau	5.2 km	SE	606 m (1,988 ft)	+42 m
Zell	5.3 km	W	599 m (1,965 ft)	+35 m
Hergiswil bei Willisau	5.3 km	SW	704 m (2,310 ft)	+140 m

Peaks and passes near Willisau Stadt

Tomlishorn, peak at 2,128 m (6,982 ft), 25 km to the SE — 1,564 m above the town.
Widderfeld, peak at 2,076 m (6,811 ft), 24.6 km to the SE — 1,512 m above the town.
Schafmatt, peak at 1,979 m (6,493 ft), 23.9 km to the S — 1,415 m above the town.
Änzisattel, pass at 1,195 m (3,921 ft), 13.8 km to the SW.

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

Where Willisau Stadt is

Latitude 47.1211763, longitude 7.9924888. 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 Willisau Stadt'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 558 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.