Elevation of Zell, Luzern, Switzerland

Zell, Luzern, Switzerland is 599 m (1,965 ft) above sea level.

Zell's height from sea level is 599 metres, or 1,965 feet. GeoNames reads 589 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 589 m.

Ground within 4 km

496 m – 786 m

Mean 663 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 290 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 57

among the towns of Luzern, and 253rd of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Willisau Stadt

5.3 km to the E, at 564 m, 35 m lower.

Cross-section through Zell

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 Zell; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 590 m at 12 km west to 544 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 542 m at 12 km north to 1,095 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Zell, 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 Zell

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Willisau Stadt	5.3 km	E	564 m (1,850 ft)	−35 m
Schötz	6.1 km	NE	505 m (1,657 ft)	−94 m
Hergiswil bei Willisau	6.2 km	S	704 m (2,310 ft)	+105 m
Huttwil (Bern)	6.4 km	SW	658 m (2,159 ft)	+59 m
Ettiswil	7.1 km	E	519 m (1,703 ft)	−80 m

Peaks and passes near Zell

Farnere, peak at 1,572 m (5,157 ft), 24.1 km to the S — 973 m above the town.
Napf, peak at 1,406 m (4,613 ft), 14.8 km to the S — 807 m above the town.
Farnli-Esel, hill at 1,383 m (4,537 ft), 15.1 km to the S — 784 m above the town.
Fritzeflue, pass at 944 m (3,097 ft), 11.3 km to the SW.

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

Where Zell is

Latitude 47.13642, longitude 7.92673. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Zell'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 589 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.