 The lowest point of Waldkirch is 243 m high, the difference in altitude in the district is 998 m.

Due to its location in the Upper Rhine Plain occasionally there are some small earthquakes.The last major earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred on December 5, 2004, with the epicenter below the Kandel massif.The districts Buchholz, Kollnau, Siensbach including the road towards it ("Siensbacher Weg"), Suggental and Waldkirch belong to the town of Waldkirch.