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Mont Salève

Elevation
1,379 m
#11,785
in the world
#285
in France
578 m
prominence

Mont Salève is a mountain in France, rising to 1,379 m, the 285th highest we list in France, part of the Jura Mountains.

Range
#19 in the range
Nearest town
9.7 km away
Type
Mountain
GeoNames feature code MT

Where it is

Mont Salève

Mont Salève lies in France, in Rhone-Alpes.

Key facts

Elevation
1,379 m (4,524 ft)
Surveyed elevation, GeoNames
Prominence
578 m
Type
Mountain
Region
Rhone-Alpes
Coordinates
46.094, 6.140

How it ranks

Among peaks in France
#285of 320
LargestSmallest
In the Jura Mountains
#19of 31
LargestSmallest
Among all listed peaks
#11,785of 14,616
LargestSmallest

Nearest peaks

Nearest peaks, by distance from this summit
PeakElevationDistance
Montagne de Vuache1,105 m16 km
Pointe d'Andey1,877 m22 km
Le Reculet1,717 m24 km
Le Môle1,863 m24 km
Crêt de la Neige1,717 m25 km
Dents de Lanfon1,824 m27 km

Nearest cities

The closest places in our city dataset to Mont Salève.

Nearest cities, by distance from this summit
CityCountryPopulationDistance
CarougeSwitzerland19,3449.7 km
OnexSwitzerland17,30210 km
GenevaSwitzerland201,74112 km
AnnemasseFrance28,27514 km
VernierSwitzerland30,08614 km

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Elevation and coordinates from GeoNames; prominence, isolation, range and first-ascent data from Wikidata. GeoNames publishes no date for elevation figures, so none is shown.