Elevation of Rjukan, Telemark, Norway

Rjukan, Telemark, Norway is 339 m (1,112 ft) above sea level.

Rjukan's height from sea level is 339 metres, or 1,112 feet. GeoNames reads 302 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 296 m.

Also written: Tinn.

Ground within 4 km

316 m – 1,712 m

Mean 1,004 m across the 7.7 km square centred on the town, 1,396 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 33

among the towns of Telemark, and 52nd of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

Miland

9.3 km to the NE, at 262 m, 77 m lower.

Cross-section through Rjukan

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 Rjukan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 870 m at 11 km west to 947 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 822 m at 11 km north to 986 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 45 km around Rjukan, 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 Rjukan

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Miland	9.3 km	NE	262 m (860 ft)	−77 m
Tinn Austbygd	17.9 km	NE	227 m (745 ft)	−112 m
Åmot	31 km	SW	878 m (2,881 ft)	+539 m
Veggli (Buskerud)	35.1 km	NE	235 m (771 ft)	−104 m

Peaks and passes near Rjukan

Gaustatoppen, peak at 1,883 m (6,178 ft), 3.5 km to the SE — 1,544 m above the town.
Gaustakne,store, peak at 1,523 m (4,997 ft), 8.6 km to the SE — 1,184 m above the town.
Lille Gaustakne, peak at 1,443 m (4,734 ft), 8.7 km to the SE — 1,104 m above the town.

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

Where Rjukan is

Latitude 59.8800821, longitude 8.6141339. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Rjukan'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 302 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.