Elevation of Sand, Rogaland, Norway

Sand, Rogaland, Norway is 59 m (194 ft) above sea level.

Sand's height from sea level is 59 metres, or 194 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 4 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 642 m

Mean 136 m across the 7.7 km square centred on the town, 642 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 55

among the towns of Rogaland, and 408th of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

19.2 km to the N, at 51 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through Sand

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 Sand; the vertical scale is the same on both.

857-64WE21.7 km
West to east: from 49 m at 11 km west to 721 m at 11 km east.
857-64NS21.7 km
North to south: from 658 m at 11 km north to 190 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Sand, 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 Sand

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sauda 19.2 kmN 51 m (167 ft) −8 m
Vikedal 19.8 kmW 8 m (26 ft) −51 m
Sandeid 23.3 kmW 20 m (66 ft) −39 m
Etne (Hordaland) 26.9 kmNW 17 m (56 ft) −42 m
Nedstrand 27.6 kmSW 36 m (118 ft) −23 m

Peaks and passes near Sand

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

Where Sand is

Latitude 59.4853228, longitude 6.2535395. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sand elevation: 59 m (194 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 Sand'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 8 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.