Elevation of Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium

Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium is 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

Aalst's height from sea level is 14 metres, or 46 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 14 m.

Also written: Alost.

Ground within 4 km

4 m – 50 m

Mean 16 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 46 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 65

among the towns of East Flanders, and 455th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

5.1 km to the W, at 23 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Aalst

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Aalst; the vertical scale is the same on both.

67-5WE23.4 km
West to east: from 51 m at 12 km west to 62 m at 12 km east.
67-5NS23.4 km
North to south: from 5 m at 12 km north to 31 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Aalst, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 Aalst

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Erpe-Mere 5.1 kmW 23 m (75 ft) +9 m
Haaltert 5.1 kmSW 37 m (121 ft) +23 m
Lede 5.4 kmNW 30 m (98 ft) +16 m
Affligem (Flemish Brabant) 6 kmSE 58 m (190 ft) +44 m
Denderleeuw 7.1 kmS 10 m (33 ft) −4 m

Where Aalst is

Latitude 50.9378101, longitude 4.0409517. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Aalst elevation: 14 m (46 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 Aalst'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 12 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.