Elevation of Orsa, Dalarna, Sweden

Orsa, Dalarna, Sweden is 172 m (564 ft) above sea level.

Orsa's height from sea level is 172 metres, or 564 feet. GeoNames reads 169 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 166 m.

Ground within 4 km

162 m – 325 m

Mean 212 m across the 7.6 km square centred on the town, 163 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 49

among the towns of Dalarna, and 120th of 996 in Sweden.

Nearest town

7.6 km to the W, at 168 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Orsa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Orsa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

323150WE21.3 km
West to east: from 170 m at 11 km west to 311 m at 11 km east.
323150NS21.3 km
North to south: from 292 m at 11 km north to 187 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Orsa, 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 Orsa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Våmhus 7.6 kmW 168 m (551 ft) −4 m
Färnäs 12.8 kmS 193 m (633 ft) +21 m
Mora 13.4 kmS 167 m (548 ft) −5 m
Nusnäs 18.1 kmS 176 m (577 ft) +4 m
Sollerön 22.3 kmS 197 m (646 ft) +25 m

Where Orsa is

Latitude 61.1169365, longitude 14.6280708. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Orsa elevation: 172 m (564 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 Orsa'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 169 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.