Elevation of Merksplas, Antwerp, Belgium

Merksplas, Antwerp, Belgium is 27 m (89 ft) above sea level.

Merksplas's height from sea level is 27 metres, or 89 feet. GeoNames reads 26 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

19 m – 33 m

Mean 26 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 14 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 70

among the towns of Antwerp, and 367th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

4.2 km to the S, at 28 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Merksplas

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 Merksplas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

52-9WE23.4 km
West to east: from 24 m at 12 km west to 27 m at 12 km east.
52-9NS23.4 km
North to south: from 13 m at 12 km north to 10 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Merksplas, 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 Merksplas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Beerse 4.2 kmS 28 m (92 ft) +1 m
Vosselaar 5.8 kmS 22 m (72 ft) −5 m
Baarle-Hertog 5.8 kmN 23 m (75 ft) −4 m
Turnhout 6.6 kmSE 27 m (89 ft) same
Rijkevorsel 7.1 kmW 25 m (82 ft) −2 m

Where Merksplas is

Latitude 51.35805, longitude 4.86339. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Merksplas elevation: 27 m (89 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 Merksplas'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 26 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.