Elevation of Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands

Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

Emmen's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. GeoNames reads 19 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 23 m.

Also written: Schoonebeek Sleen.

Ground within 4 km

9 m – 33 m

Mean 21 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 24 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 13

among the towns of Drenthe, and 70th of 481 in Netherlands.

Nearest town

Borger-Odoorn

11.5 km to the N, at 7 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Emmen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Emmen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 15 m at 12 km west to 13 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 6 m at 12 km north to 14 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Emmen, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 48 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 Emmen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Borger-Odoorn	11.5 km	N	7 m (23 ft)	−16 m
Coevorden	17.4 km	SW	12 m (39 ft)	−11 m
Haren (Germany)	22.8 km	E	11 m (36 ft)	−12 m
Stadskanaal (Groningen)	23.2 km	N	4 m (13 ft)	−19 m
Hummelo en Keppel	25.8 km	NW	14 m (46 ft)	−9 m

Where Emmen is

Latitude 52.7858037, longitude 6.8975851. 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 Emmen'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 19 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.