Elevation of Lons-le-Saunier, Franche-Comté, France

Lons-le-Saunier, Franche-Comté, France is 267 m (876 ft) above sea level.

Lons-le-Saunier's height from sea level is 267 metres, or 876 feet. GeoNames reads 260 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

246 m – 530 m

Mean 334 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 284 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 12

among the towns of Franche-Comté, and 107th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

Saint-Claude

39.8 km to the SE, at 581 m, 314 m higher.

Cross-section through Lons-le-Saunier

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 Lons-le-Saunier; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 217 m at 12 km west to 522 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 270 m at 12 km north to 501 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Lons-le-Saunier, 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 Lons-le-Saunier

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Saint-Claude	39.8 km	SE	581 m (1,906 ft)	+314 m

Peaks and passes near Lons-le-Saunier

Pointe de la Vuarde, peak at 556 m (1,824 ft), 7.5 km to the S — 289 m above the town.

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

Where Lons-le-Saunier is

Latitude 46.671361, longitude 5.550796. 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 Lons-le-Saunier'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 260 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.