Elevation of Karlstad, Värmland, Sweden

Karlstad, Värmland, Sweden is 55 m (180 ft) above sea level.

Karlstad's height from sea level is 55 metres, or 180 feet. GeoNames reads 58 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 88 m.

Ground within 4 km

44 m – 99 m

Mean 57 m across the 7.7 km square centred on the town, 55 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 32

among the towns of Värmland, and 454th of 996 in Sweden.

Nearest town

6.3 km to the S, at 50 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through Karlstad

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 Karlstad; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11838WE21.7 km
West to east: from 74 m at 11 km west to 55 m at 11 km east.
11838NS21.7 km
North to south: from 95 m at 11 km north to 47 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Karlstad, 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 Karlstad

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Skoghall 6.3 kmS 50 m (164 ft) −5 m
Skåre 7.2 kmNW 52 m (171 ft) −3 m
Skattkärr 8.6 kmNE 97 m (318 ft) +42 m
Forshaga 16.8 kmN 63 m (207 ft) +8 m
Kil 17.3 kmNW 102 m (335 ft) +47 m

Peaks and passes near Karlstad

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

Where Karlstad is

Latitude 59.3791363, longitude 13.5008041. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Karlstad elevation: 55 m (180 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 Karlstad'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 58 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.