Elevation of Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands

Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands is 91 m (299 ft) above sea level.

Valkenburg's height from sea level is 91 metres, or 299 feet. GeoNames reads 72 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 73 m.

Also written: Valkenburg aan de Geul.

Ground within 4 km

66 m – 170 m

Mean 128 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 104 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 47

among the towns of Limburg, and 10th of 481 in Netherlands.

Nearest town

4.9 km to the S, at 166 m, 75 m higher.

Cross-section through Valkenburg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Valkenburg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

21834WE23.5 km
West to east: from 48 m at 12 km west to 164 m at 12 km east.
21834NS23.5 km
North to south: from 64 m at 12 km north to 205 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Valkenburg, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 Valkenburg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Margraten 4.9 kmS 166 m (545 ft) +75 m
Meerssen 6 kmW 63 m (207 ft) −28 m
Nuth 6.6 kmNE 102 m (335 ft) +11 m
Voerendaal 7.2 kmE 92 m (302 ft) +1 m
Beek 8 kmN 83 m (272 ft) −8 m

Peaks and passes near Valkenburg

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

Where Valkenburg is

Latitude 50.8644444, longitude 5.8316667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Valkenburg elevation: 91 m (299 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 Valkenburg'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 72 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.