Elevation of Borås, Västra Götaland, Sweden

Borås, Västra Götaland, Sweden is 140 m (459 ft) above sea level.

Borås's height from sea level is 140 metres, or 459 feet. GeoNames reads 143 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 143 m.

Ground within 4 km

133 m – 274 m

Mean 180 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 141 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 162

among the towns of Västra Götaland, and 196th of 996 in Sweden.

Nearest town

5.7 km to the SE, at 209 m, 69 m higher.

Cross-section through Borås

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Borås; the vertical scale is the same on both.

33691WE22.1 km
West to east: from 187 m at 11 km west to 311 m at 11 km east.
33691NS22.1 km
North to south: from 168 m at 11 km north to 133 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Borås, 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 Borås

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gånghester 5.7 kmSE 209 m (686 ft) +69 m
Sjömarken 6.2 kmW 157 m (515 ft) +17 m
Frufällan 6.4 kmNE 247 m (810 ft) +107 m
Rydboholm 7.2 kmS 155 m (509 ft) +15 m
Målsryd 8.6 kmSE 234 m (768 ft) +94 m

Where Borås is

Latitude 57.721035, longitude 12.939819. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Borås elevation: 140 m (459 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 Borås'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 143 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.