Elevation of Sem, Vestfold, Norway

Sem, Vestfold, Norway is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

Sem's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

4 m – 118 m

Mean 38 m across the 7.7 km square centred on the town, 114 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 46

among the towns of Vestfold, and 620th of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

3.4 km to the SE, at 39 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Sem

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 Sem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

116-7WE21.7 km
West to east: from 91 m at 11 km west to 31 m at 11 km east.
116-7NS21.7 km
North to south: from 100 m at 11 km north to 6 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Sem, 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 Sem

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Vear 3.4 kmSE 39 m (128 ft) +16 m
Tønsberg 4.4 kmE 20 m (66 ft) −3 m
Fossnes 4.5 kmW 64 m (210 ft) +41 m
Barkåker 5.3 kmNE 39 m (128 ft) +16 m
Linnestad 6.5 kmN 20 m (66 ft) −3 m

Peaks and passes near Sem

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

Where Sem is

Latitude 59.2823015, longitude 10.3300321. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sem elevation: 23 m (75 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 Sem'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 21 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.