Elevation of Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland is 417 m (1,368 ft) above sea level.

Zurich's height from sea level is 417 metres, or 1,368 feet. GeoNames reads 429 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 421 m.

Also written: Zürich Zurigo.

Ground within 4 km

401 m – 743 m

Mean 476 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 342 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

107th of 124

among the towns of Zurich, and 784th of 995 in Switzerland.

Nearest town

Zollikon

4.1 km to the SE, at 489 m, 72 m higher.

Cross-section through Zurich

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 Zurich; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 489 m at 12 km west to 434 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 432 m at 12 km north to 695 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Zurich, 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 Zurich

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Zollikon	4.1 km	SE	489 m (1,604 ft)	+72 m
Kilchberg	5.1 km	S	472 m (1,549 ft)	+55 m
Wettswil am Albis	6 km	SW	537 m (1,762 ft)	+120 m
Stallikon	6.1 km	SW	578 m (1,896 ft)	+161 m
Adliswil	6.4 km	S	486 m (1,594 ft)	+69 m

Peaks and passes near Zurich

Bruusthöchi, hill at 1,177 m (3,862 ft), 24.7 km to the S — 760 m above the town.
Bellevue, hill at 1,164 m (3,819 ft), 24.9 km to the S — 747 m above the town.
Sparenfirst, hill at 1,136 m (3,727 ft), 25 km to the S — 719 m above the town.
Buchenegg, pass at 786 m (2,579 ft), 8.4 km to the S.

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

Where Zurich is

Latitude 47.3686498, longitude 8.5391825. 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 Zurich'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 429 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.