Elevation of Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands is 1 m (3 ft) above sea level.

Den Helder's height from sea level is 1 metres, or 3 feet. GeoNames reads 3 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 8 m

Mean 1 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 8 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 63

among the towns of Noord-Holland, and 300th of 481 in Netherlands.

Nearest town

11.3 km to the S, at 0 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Den Helder

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

33-28WE23 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
33-28NS23 km
North to south: from 4 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Den Helder, 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 Den Helder

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Anna Paulowna 11.3 kmS 0 m (0 ft) −1 m
Wieringen 15.5 kmE 1 m (3 ft) same
Zijpe 16.2 kmS 0 m (0 ft) −1 m
Texel 16.2 kmN 0 m (0 ft) −1 m
Schagen 18.9 kmS 2 m (7 ft) +1 m

Where Den Helder is

Latitude 52.9562808, longitude 4.7607972. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Den Helder elevation: 1 m (3 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 Den Helder'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 3 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.