Elevation of Birsfelden, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

Birsfelden, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland is 260 m (853 ft) above sea level.

Birsfelden's height from sea level is 260 metres, or 853 feet. GeoNames reads 259 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 259 m.

Ground within 4 km

245 m – 449 m

Mean 296 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 204 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 32

among the towns of Basel-Landschaft, and 987th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Basel

2.7 km to the W, at 268 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Birsfelden

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 Birsfelden; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 325 m at 12 km west to 274 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 343 m at 12 km north to 591 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Birsfelden, 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 Birsfelden

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Basel (Basel-Town)	2.7 km	W	268 m (879 ft)	+8 m
Muttenz	3 km	S	282 m (925 ft)	+22 m
Riehen (Basel-Town)	3 km	NE	281 m (922 ft)	+21 m
Münchenstein	4 km	S	283 m (928 ft)	+23 m
Weil (Germany)	4.5 km	N	276 m (906 ft)	+16 m

Peaks and passes near Birsfelden

Hohe Winde, peak at 1,205 m (3,953 ft), 23.8 km to the S — 945 m above the town.
Vogelberg (Passwang), peak at 1,204 m (3,950 ft), 21 km to the S — 944 m above the town.
Vogelberg, hill at 1,204 m (3,950 ft), 21 km to the S — 944 m above the town.
Blattepass, pass at 573 m (1,880 ft), 11.8 km to the SW.

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

Where Birsfelden is

Latitude 47.5537719, longitude 7.6279041. 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 Birsfelden'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 259 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.