Obergesteln

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Obergesteln

Total population

195

Elevation1355 m

Land area146 km²

Coordinates46.51°, 8.32°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Obergesteln is a village in the municipality of Obergoms in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Valais

• Biel
  6.5 mi away
• Schmidighischere
  12.3 mi away
• Bister
  16.2 mi away · pop. 31
• Mörel
  17.3 mi away
• Ebnet
  19 mi away
• Bitsch
  19.2 mi away · pop. 747
• Belalp
  19.4 mi away
• Brig
  21.1 mi away · pop. 12,823
• Birgisch
  22.2 mi away · pop. 253
• Gondo
  23.7 mi away
• Blatten (Lötschen)
  24.9 mi away · pop. 303
• Wiler (Lötschen)
  26.9 mi away · pop. 539

Browse all places in Valais →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

scentless mayweed

Tripleurospermum inodorum

Seen 2026-09-24

Field Scabious

Knautia arvensis

Seen 2026-09-24

Greater Knapweed

Centaurea scabiosa

Seen 2026-09-24

Lady's Bedstraw

Galium verum

Seen 2026-09-24

common soapwort

Saponaria officinalis

Seen 2026-09-24

Red Deer

Cervus elaphus

Seen 2026-09-23

mossy saxifrage

Saxifraga bryoides

Seen 2026-09-22

Yellow-faced Blowfly

Cynomya mortuorum

Seen 2026-09-20

Yellow Saxifrage

Saxifraga aizoides

Seen 2026-09-19

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers