Elevation of Houthulst, West Flanders, Belgium

Houthulst, West Flanders, Belgium is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Houthulst's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

1 m – 30 m

Mean 15 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 29 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 64

among the towns of West Flanders, and 406th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

4.8 km to the E, at 20 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Houthulst

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 Houthulst; the vertical scale is the same on both.

50-11WE23.4 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 39 m at 12 km east.
50-11NS23.4 km
North to south: from 3 m at 12 km north to 36 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Houthulst, 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 Houthulst

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Staden 4.8 kmE 20 m (66 ft) same
Langemark-Poelkapelle 7.4 kmS 11 m (36 ft) −9 m
Diksmuide 8.3 kmNW 4 m (13 ft) −16 m
Kortemark 9 kmNE 9 m (30 ft) −11 m
Hooglede 9.5 kmE 43 m (141 ft) +23 m

Where Houthulst is

Latitude 50.9773679, longitude 2.9456829. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Houthulst elevation: 20 m (66 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 Houthulst'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 18 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.