Elevation of Byrknes, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Byrknes, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Byrknes's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 3 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 35 m

Mean 7 m across the 7.6 km square centred on the town, 35 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 47

among the towns of Sogn og Fjordane, and 809th of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

13.7 km to the SE, at 15 m, 7 m higher.

Cross-section through Byrknes

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Byrknes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

119-9WE21.4 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 4 m at 11 km east.
119-9NS21.4 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Byrknes, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 45 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 Byrknes

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kaland (Hordaland) 13.7 kmSE 15 m (49 ft) +7 m
Årås (Hordaland) 14.4 kmS 22 m (72 ft) +14 m
Fedje (Hordaland) 14.8 kmSW 5 m (16 ft) −3 m
Eivindvik 15.8 kmNE 26 m (85 ft) +18 m
Hardbakke 19.8 kmN 43 m (141 ft) +35 m

Peaks and passes near Byrknes

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

Where Byrknes is

Latitude 60.897812, longitude 4.837514. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Byrknes elevation: 8 m (26 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Byrknes'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.