Elevation of Merbes-le-Château, Hainaut, Belgium

Merbes-le-Château, Hainaut, Belgium is 145 m (476 ft) above sea level.

Merbes-le-Château's height from sea level is 145 metres, or 476 feet. GeoNames reads 131 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

123 m – 215 m

Mean 158 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 92 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 69

among the towns of Hainaut, and 147th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

Lobbes

6.1 km to the NE, at 164 m, 19 m higher.

Cross-section through Merbes-le-Château

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Merbes-le-Château; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 132 m at 12 km west to 165 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 93 m at 12 km north to 224 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Merbes-le-Château, 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 Merbes-le-Château

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Lobbes	6.1 km	NE	164 m (538 ft)	+19 m
Erquelinnes	6.3 km	W	131 m (430 ft)	−14 m
Jeumont (France)	7.3 km	W	135 m (443 ft)	−10 m
Thuin	9 km	SE	161 m (528 ft)	+16 m
Beaumont	9.6 km	S	209 m (686 ft)	+64 m

Where Merbes-le-Château is

Latitude 50.3190461, longitude 4.197488. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Merbes-le-Château'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 131 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.