Elevation of Hovden, Aust-Agder, Norway

Hovden, Aust-Agder, Norway is 791 m (2,595 ft) above sea level.

Hovden's height from sea level is 791 metres, or 2,595 feet. GeoNames reads 782 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 800 m.

Ground within 4 km

755 m – 1,223 m

Mean 914 m across the 7.7 km square centred on the town, 468 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 21

among the towns of Aust-Agder, and 5th of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

17.7 km to the S, at 1,118 m, 327 m higher.

Cross-section through Hovden

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hovden; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,284715WE21.7 km
West to east: from 856 m at 11 km west to 1,118 m at 11 km east.
1,284715NS21.7 km
North to south: from 1,096 m at 11 km north to 936 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Hovden, 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 Hovden

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bykle 17.7 kmS 1,118 m (3,668 ft) +327 m
Dalen (Telemark) 39.1 kmE 144 m (472 ft) −647 m

Peaks and passes near Hovden

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

Where Hovden is

Latitude 59.5604493, longitude 7.3567043. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hovden elevation: 791 m (2,595 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 Hovden'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 782 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.