Elevation of Griffen, Kärnten, Austria

Griffen, Kärnten, Austria is 496 m (1,627 ft) above sea level.

Griffen's height from sea level is 496 metres, or 1,627 feet. GeoNames reads 486 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 484 m.

Ground within 4 km

466 m – 1,033 m

Mean 624 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 567 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

58th of 79

among the towns of Kärnten, and 402nd of 1,000 in Austria.

Nearest town

8.5 km to the SW, at 452 m, 44 m lower.

Cross-section through Griffen

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 Griffen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,135372WE24.2 km
West to east: from 601 m at 12 km west to 449 m at 12 km east.
1,135372NS24.2 km
North to south: from 1,082 m at 12 km north to 502 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Griffen, 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 Griffen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Völkermarkt 8.5 kmSW 452 m (1,483 ft) −44 m
Sankt Andrä 10.3 kmNE 426 m (1,398 ft) −70 m
Sankt Paul im Lavanttal 10.5 kmE 380 m (1,247 ft) −116 m
Eberndorf 14 kmSW 480 m (1,575 ft) −16 m
Bleiburg 14 kmS 481 m (1,578 ft) −15 m

Peaks and passes near Griffen

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

Where Griffen is

Latitude 46.70021, longitude 14.73003. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Griffen elevation: 496 m (1,627 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 Griffen'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 486 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.