Elevation of Schifflange, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Schifflange, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg is 301 m (988 ft) above sea level.

Schifflange's height from sea level is 301 metres, or 988 feet. GeoNames reads 292 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 291 m.

Also written: Schifflingen Schëffléng.

Ground within 4 km

274 m – 432 m

Mean 320 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 158 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 41

among the towns of Esch-sur-Alzette, and 268th of 464 in Luxembourg.

Nearest town

2.4 km to the N, at 299 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Schifflange

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Schifflange; the vertical scale is the same on both.

416257WE23.7 km
West to east: from 391 m at 12 km west to 268 m at 12 km east.
416257NS23.7 km
North to south: from 301 m at 12 km north to 358 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Schifflange, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 50 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 Schifflange

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Foetz 2.4 kmN 299 m (981 ft) −2 m
Bergem 2.8 kmNE 281 m (922 ft) −20 m
Kayl 2.8 kmSE 288 m (945 ft) −13 m
Noertzange 3.2 kmE 274 m (899 ft) −27 m
Pontpierre 3.3 kmN 296 m (971 ft) −5 m

Peaks and passes near Schifflange

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

Where Schifflange is

Latitude 49.5057481, longitude 6.0142918. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Schifflange elevation: 301 m (988 ft) above sea level

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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 Schifflange'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 292 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.