Elevation of La Roche-sur-Foron, Rhône-Alpes, France
La Roche-sur-Foron, Rhône-Alpes, France is 539 m (1,768 ft) above sea level.
La Roche-sur-Foron's height from sea level is 539 metres, or 1,768 feet. GeoNames reads 571 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 638 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 812 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through La Roche-sur-Foron
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 La Roche-sur-Foron; 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 La Roche-sur-Foron
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonneville | 7.6 km | E | 458 m (1,503 ft) | −81 m |
| Veyrier (Switzerland) | 15.2 km | NW | 423 m (1,388 ft) | −116 m |
| Annemasse | 15.3 km | NW | 437 m (1,434 ft) | −102 m |
| Gaillard | 15.3 km | NW | 417 m (1,368 ft) | −122 m |
| Troinex (Switzerland) | 16.3 km | NW | 426 m (1,398 ft) | −113 m |
Peaks and passes near La Roche-sur-Foron
- Pointe Percée, peak at 2,750 m (9,022 ft), 22.5 km to the SE — 2,211 m above the town.
- La Grande Torchère, peak at 2,616 m (8,583 ft), 24 km to the SE — 2,077 m above the town.
- La Roualle, peak at 2,589 m (8,494 ft), 23.6 km to the SE — 2,050 m above the town.
- Col de la Croisette, pass at 1,174 m (3,852 ft), 12.3 km to the NW.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where La Roche-sur-Foron is
Latitude 46.067072, longitude 6.312039. 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 La Roche-sur-Foron'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 571 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.