Elevation of Zaventem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Zaventem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium is 41 m (135 ft) above sea level.

Zaventem's height from sea level is 41 metres, or 135 feet. GeoNames reads 46 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 46 m.

Ground within 4 km

13 m – 84 m

Mean 48 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 71 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 65

among the towns of Flemish Brabant, and 320th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

2.5 km to the SW, at 48 m, 7 m higher.

Cross-section through Zaventem

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 Zaventem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

136-4WE23.5 km
West to east: from 31 m at 12 km west to 47 m at 12 km east.
136-4NS23.5 km
North to south: from 7 m at 12 km north to 115 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Zaventem, 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 Zaventem

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kraainem 2.5 kmSW 48 m (157 ft) +7 m
Wezembeek-Oppem 3.9 kmS 75 m (246 ft) +34 m
Machelen 4.1 kmNW 22 m (72 ft) −19 m
Steenokkerzeel 4.7 kmNE 21 m (69 ft) −20 m
Kortenberg 4.9 kmE 46 m (151 ft) +5 m

Where Zaventem is

Latitude 50.881956, longitude 4.474315. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Zaventem elevation: 41 m (135 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 Zaventem'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 46 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.