Elevation of Merchtem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Merchtem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium is 24 m (79 ft) above sea level.

Merchtem's height from sea level is 24 metres, or 79 feet. GeoNames reads 25 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

10 m – 79 m

Mean 35 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 69 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

47th of 65

among the towns of Flemish Brabant, and 382nd of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

Opwijk

4 km to the NW, at 20 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Merchtem

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 Merchtem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 35 m at 12 km west to 33 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 2 m at 12 km north to 37 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Merchtem, 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 Merchtem

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Opwijk	4 km	NW	20 m (66 ft)	−4 m
Asse	5.1 km	SW	73 m (240 ft)	+49 m
Meise	5.5 km	E	30 m (98 ft)	+6 m
Bever	6.9 km	SE	44 m (144 ft)	+20 m
Wemmel	7.1 km	SE	47 m (154 ft)	+23 m

Where Merchtem is

Latitude 50.95, longitude 4.2333333. 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 Merchtem'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.