Elevation of Alken, Limburg, Belgium

Alken, Limburg, Belgium is 37 m (121 ft) above sea level.

Alken's height from sea level is 37 metres, or 121 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

30 m – 60 m

Mean 44 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 30 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 44

among the towns of Limburg, and 329th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

Wellen

4.5 km to the SE, at 47 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through Alken

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 Alken; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 37 m at 12 km west to 49 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 40 m at 12 km north to 79 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Alken, 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 Alken

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Wellen	4.5 km	SE	47 m (154 ft)	+10 m
Kortessem	6 km	E	53 m (174 ft)	+16 m
Hasselt	6.3 km	N	39 m (128 ft)	+2 m
Borgloon	8.2 km	S	98 m (322 ft)	+61 m
Diepenbeek	8.4 km	NE	44 m (144 ft)	+7 m

Where Alken is

Latitude 50.87609, longitude 5.30767. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Alken'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 39 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.