Elevation of Fors, Dalarna, Sweden

Fors, Dalarna, Sweden is 73 m (240 ft) above sea level.

Fors's height from sea level is 73 metres, or 240 feet. GeoNames reads 60 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

49 m – 169 m

Mean 89 m across the 7.6 km square centred on the town, 120 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

49th of 49

among the towns of Dalarna, and 373rd of 996 in Sweden.

Nearest town

10.1 km to the NE, at 114 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through Fors

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Fors; the vertical scale is the same on both.

20334WE21.5 km
West to east: from 119 m at 11 km west to 62 m at 11 km east.
20334NS21.5 km
North to south: from 191 m at 11 km north to 108 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Fors, 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 Fors

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Horndal 10.1 kmNE 114 m (374 ft) +41 m
Avesta 10.8 kmSW 84 m (276 ft) +11 m
Hedemora 19.7 kmW 111 m (364 ft) +38 m
Norberg (Västmanland) 27.2 kmSW 120 m (394 ft) +47 m
Vikmanshyttan 28.7 kmW 130 m (427 ft) +57 m

Where Fors is

Latitude 60.21109, longitude 16.31698. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Fors elevation: 73 m (240 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 Fors'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 60 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.