Elevation of Hofors, Gävleborg, Sweden

Hofors, Gävleborg, Sweden is 134 m (440 ft) above sea level.

Hofors's height from sea level is 134 metres, or 440 feet. GeoNames reads 114 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

104 m – 244 m

Mean 169 m across the 7.6 km square centred on the town, 140 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 39

among the towns of Gävleborg, and 208th of 996 in Sweden.

Nearest town

11.2 km to the E, at 70 m, 64 m lower.

Cross-section through Hofors

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hofors; the vertical scale is the same on both.

27198WE21.4 km
West to east: from 180 m at 11 km west to 172 m at 11 km east.
27198NS21.4 km
North to south: from 251 m at 11 km north to 168 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Hofors, 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 Hofors

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Torsåker 11.2 kmE 70 m (230 ft) −64 m
Storvik 14.1 kmE 69 m (226 ft) −65 m
Långshyttan (Dalarna) 17.3 kmSW 102 m (335 ft) −32 m
Åshammar 18.1 kmNE 86 m (282 ft) −48 m
Kungsgården 19.4 kmE 54 m (177 ft) −80 m

Where Hofors is

Latitude 60.54595, longitude 16.2841. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hofors elevation: 134 m (440 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 Hofors'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 114 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.