Elevation of Friesach, Kärnten, Austria

Friesach, Kärnten, Austria is 638 m (2,093 ft) above sea level.

Friesach's height from sea level is 638 metres, or 2,093 feet. GeoNames reads 635 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 634 m.

Ground within 4 km

620 m – 1,425 m

Mean 865 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 805 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 79

among the towns of Kärnten, and 192nd of 1,000 in Austria.

Nearest town

Straßburg

8.3 km to the SW, at 801 m, 163 m higher.

Cross-section through Friesach

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 Friesach; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,152 m at 12 km west to 982 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 876 m at 12 km north to 679 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Friesach, 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 Friesach

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Straßburg	8.3 km	SW	801 m (2,628 ft)	+163 m
Althofen	10.3 km	SE	628 m (2,060 ft)	−10 m
Kappel am Krappfeld	13.3 km	SE	600 m (1,969 ft)	−38 m
Klein Sankt Paul	16.3 km	SE	633 m (2,077 ft)	−5 m
Metnitz	17.1 km	W	901 m (2,956 ft)	+263 m

Peaks and passes near Friesach

Zirbitzkogel, peak at 2,396 m (7,861 ft), 17.2 km to the NE — 1,758 m above the town.
Fuchskogel, peak at 2,214 m (7,264 ft), 16.3 km to the NE — 1,576 m above the town.
Wenzelalpe, peak at 2,151 m (7,057 ft), 18.9 km to the NE — 1,513 m above the town.
Klippitztörl, pass at 1,644 m (5,394 ft), 20.1 km to the E.

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

Where Friesach is

Latitude 46.95149, longitude 14.41155. 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 Friesach'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 635 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.