Elevation of Wellen, Limburg, Belgium

Wellen, Limburg, Belgium is 47 m (154 ft) above sea level.

Wellen's height from sea level is 47 metres, or 154 feet. GeoNames reads 47 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

37 m – 116 m

Mean 61 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 79 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 44

among the towns of Limburg, and 302nd of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

3.8 km to the S, at 98 m, 51 m higher.

Cross-section through Wellen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wellen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

12923WE23.5 km
West to east: from 46 m at 12 km west to 89 m at 12 km east.
12923NS23.5 km
North to south: from 34 m at 12 km north to 115 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Wellen, 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 Wellen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Borgloon 3.8 kmS 98 m (322 ft) +51 m
Kortessem 4.1 kmNE 53 m (174 ft) +6 m
Alken 4.5 kmNW 37 m (121 ft) −10 m
Diepenbeek 9.4 kmNE 44 m (144 ft) −3 m
Heers 10 kmS 79 m (259 ft) +32 m

Where Wellen is

Latitude 50.8404, longitude 5.33835. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Wellen elevation: 47 m (154 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 Wellen'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 47 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.