Elevation of Vara, Västra Götaland, Sweden

Vara, Västra Götaland, Sweden is 82 m (269 ft) above sea level.

Vara's height from sea level is 82 metres, or 269 feet. GeoNames reads 84 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

72 m – 96 m

Mean 80 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 24 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

65th of 162

among the towns of Västra Götaland, and 345th of 996 in Sweden.

Nearest town

6.3 km to the N, at 75 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Vara

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

12161WE21.9 km
West to east: from 106 m at 11 km west to 81 m at 11 km east.
12161NS21.9 km
North to south: from 92 m at 11 km north to 112 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Vara, 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 Vara

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stora Levene 6.3 kmN 75 m (246 ft) −7 m
Vedum 9.8 kmS 108 m (354 ft) +26 m
Järpås 12.4 kmN 71 m (233 ft) −11 m
Kvänum 14.1 kmE 82 m (269 ft) same
Nossebro 16.2 kmSW 87 m (285 ft) +5 m

Where Vara is

Latitude 58.261781, longitude 12.960194. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vara elevation: 82 m (269 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 Vara'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 84 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.