Elevation of Chièvres, Hainaut, Belgium

Chièvres, Hainaut, Belgium is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

Chièvres's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

34 m – 81 m

Mean 53 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

48th of 69

among the towns of Hainaut, and 295th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

3.9 km to the E, at 50 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Chièvres

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chièvres; the vertical scale is the same on both.

8917WE23.5 km
West to east: from 50 m at 12 km west to 64 m at 12 km east.
8917NS23.5 km
North to south: from 41 m at 12 km north to 22 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Chièvres, 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 Chièvres

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Brugelette 3.9 kmE 50 m (164 ft) +2 m
Ath 5.6 kmN 34 m (112 ft) −14 m
Beloeil 6.4 kmSW 62 m (203 ft) +14 m
Lens 7.2 kmSE 64 m (210 ft) +16 m
Jurbise 9.3 kmSE 74 m (243 ft) +26 m

Where Chièvres is

Latitude 50.583986, longitude 3.806936. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chièvres elevation: 48 m (157 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 Chièvres'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 52 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.