Elevation of Dessel, Antwerp, Belgium

Dessel, Antwerp, Belgium is 25 m (82 ft) above sea level.

Dessel's height from sea level is 25 metres, or 82 feet. GeoNames reads 25 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

19 m – 35 m

Mean 26 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 16 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 70

among the towns of Antwerp, and 377th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

3.9 km to the NW, at 23 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Dessel

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 Dessel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

610WE23.4 km
West to east: from 16 m at 12 km west to 42 m at 12 km east.
610NS23.4 km
North to south: from 31 m at 12 km north to 25 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Dessel, 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 Dessel

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Retie 3.9 kmNW 23 m (75 ft) −2 m
Mol 5.2 kmS 27 m (89 ft) +2 m
Balen 8.2 kmSE 34 m (112 ft) +9 m
Arendonk 9.6 kmN 26 m (85 ft) +1 m
Kasterlee 10.4 kmW 25 m (82 ft) same

Where Dessel is

Latitude 51.238107, longitude 5.116973. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dessel elevation: 25 m (82 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 Dessel'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 25 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.