Elevation of Bilzen, Limburg, Belgium

Bilzen, Limburg, Belgium is 61 m (200 ft) above sea level.

Bilzen's height from sea level is 61 metres, or 200 feet. GeoNames reads 53 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 53 m.

Ground within 4 km

41 m – 113 m

Mean 69 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 72 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 44

among the towns of Limburg, and 265th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the SW, at 75 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Bilzen

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 Bilzen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

13434WE23.5 km
West to east: from 44 m at 12 km west to 63 m at 12 km east.
13434NS23.5 km
North to south: from 72 m at 12 km north to 127 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Bilzen, 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 Bilzen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hoeselt 3.1 kmSW 75 m (246 ft) +14 m
Zutendaal 8 kmNE 94 m (308 ft) +33 m
Diepenbeek 8.4 kmNW 44 m (144 ft) −17 m
Kortessem 9 kmW 53 m (174 ft) −8 m
Riemst 9.1 kmSE 107 m (351 ft) +46 m

Where Bilzen is

Latitude 50.8718971, longitude 5.5167162. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bilzen elevation: 61 m (200 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 Bilzen'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 53 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.