Elevation of Linz, Oberösterreich, Austria

Linz, Oberösterreich, Austria is 268 m (879 ft) above sea level.

Linz's height from sea level is 268 metres, or 879 feet. GeoNames reads 268 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 270 m.

Ground within 4 km

252 m – 560 m

Mean 310 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 308 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

213th of 226

among the towns of Oberösterreich, and 799th of 1,000 in Austria.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the W, at 281 m, 13 m higher.

Cross-section through Linz

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Linz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

877206WE23.9 km
West to east: from 257 m at 12 km west to 406 m at 12 km east.
877206NS23.9 km
North to south: from 822 m at 12 km north to 345 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Linz, 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 Linz

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Puchenau 3.7 kmW 281 m (922 ft) +13 m
Leonding 3.9 kmSW 289 m (948 ft) +21 m
Steyregg 6.9 kmE 284 m (932 ft) +16 m
Wilhering 7.5 kmW 322 m (1,056 ft) +54 m
Pasching 8 kmSW 297 m (974 ft) +29 m

Peaks and passes near Linz

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

Where Linz is

Latitude 48.30694, longitude 14.28583. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Linz elevation: 268 m (879 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 Linz'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 268 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.