Elevation of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Rhône-Alpes, France

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Rhône-Alpes, France is 1,042 m (3,419 ft) above sea level.

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc's height from sea level is 1,042 metres, or 3,419 feet. GeoNames reads 1,044 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Chamonix.

Ground within 4 km

1,025 m – 3,521 m

Mean 1,853 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 2,496 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 92

among the towns of Rhône-Alpes, and 2nd of 999 in France.

Nearest town

Passy

14.3 km to the W, at 627 m, 415 m lower.

Cross-section through Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chamonix-Mont-Blanc; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,187 m at 12 km west to 3,025 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 2,501 m at 12 km north to 2,701 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, 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 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Passy	14.3 km	W	627 m (2,057 ft)	−415 m
Sallanches	18.5 km	W	564 m (1,850 ft)	−478 m
Martigny-Combe (Switzerland)	22.2 km	NE	1,157 m (3,796 ft)	+115 m
Orsières (Switzerland)	24.4 km	NE	922 m (3,025 ft)	−120 m
Martigny (Switzerland)	25.5 km	NE	469 m (1,539 ft)	−573 m

Peaks and passes near Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Mont Blanc, peak at 4,806 m (15,768 ft), 10.1 km to the S — 3,764 m above the town.
Monte Bianco di Courmayeur, peak at 4,748 m (15,577 ft), 10.5 km to the S — 3,706 m above the town.
Mont Maudit, peak at 4,465 m (14,649 ft), 8.5 km to the S — 3,423 m above the town.
Col de Voza, pass at 1,653 m (5,423 ft), 10 km to the SW.

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

Where Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is

Latitude 45.923697, longitude 6.869433. 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 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc'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 1,044 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.