Elevation of Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands

Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Assen's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Ground within 4 km

7 m – 18 m

Mean 11 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 11 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 13

among the towns of Drenthe, and 133rd of 481 in Netherlands.

Nearest town

6.4 km to the SE, at 14 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Assen

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

44-16WE23 km
West to east: from 13 m at 12 km west to 12 m at 12 km east.
44-16NS23 km
North to south: from 1 m at 12 km north to 12 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Assen, 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 Assen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hummelo en Keppel 6.4 kmSE 14 m (46 ft) +2 m
Vries En Vriendschap (Guyana) 9 kmN 10 m (33 ft) −2 m
Tynaarlo 10 kmN 9 m (30 ft) −3 m
Aa en Hunze 10.6 kmE 13 m (43 ft) +1 m
Midden-Drenthe 11.9 kmS 13 m (43 ft) +1 m

Where Assen is

Latitude 52.992753, longitude 6.5642284. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Assen elevation: 12 m (39 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 Assen'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 12 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.