Elevation of Wevelgem, West Flanders, Belgium

Wevelgem, West Flanders, Belgium is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Wevelgem's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 15 m.

Ground within 4 km

11 m – 42 m

Mean 20 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 31 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 64

among the towns of West Flanders, and 425th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

5.1 km to the SW, at 16 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Wevelgem

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 Wevelgem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

610WE23.5 km
West to east: from 18 m at 12 km west to 20 m at 12 km east.
610NS23.5 km
North to south: from 17 m at 12 km north to 28 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Wevelgem, 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 Wevelgem

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Menen 5.1 kmSW 16 m (52 ft) −1 m
Ledegem 5.4 kmNW 18 m (59 ft) +1 m
Halluin (France) 5.4 kmSW 25 m (82 ft) +8 m
Kortrijk 5.9 kmE 16 m (52 ft) −1 m
Kuurne 8.4 kmNE 15 m (49 ft) −2 m

Where Wevelgem is

Latitude 50.8166667, longitude 3.1833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Wevelgem elevation: 17 m (56 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Wevelgem'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 15 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.