Elevation of Opwijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Opwijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Opwijk's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

6 m – 75 m

Mean 27 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 69 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

51st of 65

among the towns of Flemish Brabant, and 406th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

4 km to the SE, at 24 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Opwijk

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 Opwijk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

80-6WE23.4 km
West to east: from 5 m at 12 km west to 19 m at 12 km east.
80-6NS23.4 km
North to south: from 2 m at 12 km north to 51 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Opwijk, 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 Opwijk

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Merchtem 4 kmSE 24 m (79 ft) +4 m
Buggenhout (East Flanders) 5.5 kmN 9 m (30 ft) −11 m
Lebbeke (East Flanders) 6 kmNW 5 m (16 ft) −15 m
Asse 6.5 kmS 73 m (240 ft) +53 m
Affligem 8.1 kmSW 58 m (190 ft) +38 m

Where Opwijk is

Latitude 50.9666667, longitude 4.1833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Opwijk 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 Opwijk'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 22 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.