Elevation of Bierbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Bierbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium is 66 m (217 ft) above sea level.

Bierbeek's height from sea level is 66 metres, or 217 feet. GeoNames reads 59 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

36 m – 104 m

Mean 73 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 68 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 65

among the towns of Flemish Brabant, and 254th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

5.2 km to the S, at 87 m, 21 m higher.

Cross-section through Bierbeek

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 Bierbeek; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1465WE23.5 km
West to east: from 31 m at 12 km west to 73 m at 12 km east.
1465NS23.5 km
North to south: from 40 m at 12 km north to 136 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Bierbeek, 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 Bierbeek

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Beauvechain (Brabant Wallon) 5.2 kmS 87 m (285 ft) +21 m
Boutersem 5.2 kmE 59 m (194 ft) −7 m
Leuven 6.8 kmNW 33 m (108 ft) −33 m
Oud-Heverlee 6.9 kmW 46 m (151 ft) −20 m
Lubbeek 8 kmNE 59 m (194 ft) −7 m

Where Bierbeek is

Latitude 50.8279, longitude 4.75981. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bierbeek elevation: 66 m (217 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 Bierbeek'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 59 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.