Elevation of Herøysund, Hordaland, Norway

Herøysund, Hordaland, Norway is 37 m (121 ft) above sea level.

Herøysund's height from sea level is 37 metres, or 121 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 19 m.

Also written: Herøysundet.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 898 m

Mean 190 m across the 7.7 km square centred on the town, 898 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 89

among the towns of Hordaland, and 513th of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

4.1 km to the E, at 22 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Herøysund

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Herøysund; the vertical scale is the same on both.

519-39WE21.6 km
West to east: from 5 m at 11 km west to 455 m at 11 km east.
519-39NS21.6 km
North to south: from 92 m at 11 km north to 1 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Herøysund, 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 Herøysund

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Uskedal 4.1 kmE 22 m (72 ft) −15 m
Husnes 7.2 kmS 32 m (105 ft) −5 m
Sunde Valen 10.5 kmSW 18 m (59 ft) −19 m
Dimmelsvik 10.9 kmE 22 m (72 ft) −15 m
Seimsfoss 13.3 kmE 57 m (187 ft) +20 m

Peaks and passes near Herøysund

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

Where Herøysund is

Latitude 59.9196179, longitude 5.7920057. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Herøysund elevation: 37 m (121 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 Herøysund'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 20 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.