Elevation of Heerenveen, Friesland, Netherlands

Heerenveen, Friesland, Netherlands is 2 m (7 ft) above sea level.

Heerenveen's height from sea level is 2 metres, or 7 feet. GeoNames reads 0 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1 m.

Also written: It Hearrenfean.

Ground within 4 km

-1 m – 6 m

Mean 0 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 7 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 30

among the towns of Friesland, and 266th of 481 in Netherlands.

Nearest town

Skarsterlân

8.8 km to the W, at 0 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Heerenveen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Heerenveen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to -1 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Heerenveen, 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 Heerenveen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Skarsterlân	8.8 km	W	0 m (0 ft)	−2 m
Weststellingwerf	12 km	SE	0 m (0 ft)	−2 m
Lemsterland	14.3 km	SW	0 m (0 ft)	−2 m
Opsterland	15.7 km	NE	4 m (13 ft)	+2 m
Boarnsterhim	17.5 km	NW	0 m (0 ft)	−2 m

Where Heerenveen is

Latitude 52.9605613, longitude 5.9205217. 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 Heerenveen'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 0 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.