Elevation of Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway

Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Kristiansand's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Christiansand.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 242 m

Mean 45 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 242 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 28

among the towns of Vest-Agder, and 722nd of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

5.6 km to the NE, at 9 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Kristiansand

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kristiansand; the vertical scale is the same on both.

250-19WE22 km
West to east: from 60 m at 11 km west to 21 m at 11 km east.
250-19NS22 km
North to south: from 187 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Kristiansand, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 46 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 Kristiansand

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Justvik 5.6 kmNE 9 m (30 ft) −6 m
Strai 5.7 kmNW 37 m (121 ft) +22 m
Skålevik 8 kmS 5 m (16 ft) −10 m
Nodelandsheia 8.7 kmW 130 m (427 ft) +115 m
Volleberg 9.3 kmW 40 m (131 ft) +25 m

Where Kristiansand is

Latitude 58.150937, longitude 7.9961926. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kristiansand elevation: 15 m (49 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 Kristiansand'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 13 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.