Elevation of Wolfenschiessen, Nidwalden, Switzerland
Wolfenschiessen, Nidwalden, Switzerland is 610 m (2,001 ft) above sea level.
Wolfenschiessen's height from sea level is 610 metres, or 2,001 feet. GeoNames reads 517 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 517 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 1,235 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 1,920 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Wolfenschiessen
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 Wolfenschiessen; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Wolfenschiessen
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallenwil | 5 km | N | 579 m (1,900 ft) | −31 m |
| Engelberg (Obwalden) | 7.2 km | S | 1,026 m (3,366 ft) | +416 m |
| Oberdorf | 7.6 km | N | 463 m (1,519 ft) | −147 m |
| Kerns (Obwalden) | 8 km | W | 566 m (1,857 ft) | −44 m |
| Ennetmoos | 8.8 km | N | 556 m (1,824 ft) | −54 m |
Peaks and passes near Wolfenschiessen
- Sustenhorn, peak at 3,501 m (11,486 ft), 21.2 km to the S — 2,891 m above the town.
- Hinter Tierberg, peak at 3,445 m (11,302 ft), 22.4 km to the S — 2,835 m above the town.
- Fleckistock, peak at 3,416 m (11,207 ft), 21.5 km to the SE — 2,806 m above the town.
- Ächerli, pass at 1,395 m (4,577 ft), 4.2 km to the NW.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Wolfenschiessen is
Latitude 46.8822311, longitude 8.3766661. 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 Wolfenschiessen'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 517 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.