Elevation of Harstad, Troms, Norway

Harstad, Troms, Norway is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Harstad's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 1 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 62 m.

Ground within 3 km

0 m – 446 m

Mean 74 m across the 6.9 km square centred on the town, 446 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 37

among the towns of Troms, and 693rd of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

9 km to the NW, at 26 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Harstad

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 19.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Harstad; the vertical scale is the same on both.

672-50WE19.6 km
West to east: from 134 m at 10 km west to 0 m at 10 km east.
672-50NS19.6 km
North to south: from 613 m at 10 km north to 44 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 41 km around Harstad, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 41 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 Harstad

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kasfjord 9 kmNW 26 m (85 ft) +9 m
Borkenes 15 kmW 4 m (13 ft) −13 m
Evenskjær 23.8 kmS 24 m (79 ft) +7 m
Ibestad 24.5 kmE 11 m (36 ft) −6 m
Grov 26.5 kmSE 3 m (10 ft) −14 m

Where Harstad is

Latitude 68.7986342, longitude 16.5414503. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Harstad elevation: 17 m (56 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 Harstad'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 1 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.