Elevation of Brakel, East Flanders, Belgium

Brakel, East Flanders, Belgium is 39 m (128 ft) above sea level.

Brakel's height from sea level is 39 metres, or 128 feet. GeoNames reads 42 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

30 m – 125 m

Mean 69 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 95 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 65

among the towns of East Flanders, and 325th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the E, at 41 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Brakel

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 Brakel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11117WE23.5 km
West to east: from 86 m at 12 km west to 29 m at 12 km east.
11117NS23.5 km
North to south: from 36 m at 12 km north to 38 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Brakel, 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 Brakel

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lierde 3.7 kmE 41 m (135 ft) +2 m
Zwalm 4.6 kmSW 89 m (292 ft) +50 m
Horebeke 6.6 kmNW 82 m (269 ft) +43 m
Zottegem 7.5 kmN 52 m (171 ft) +13 m
Flobecq (Hainaut) 7.6 kmS 47 m (154 ft) +8 m

Where Brakel is

Latitude 50.80276, longitude 3.76382. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Brakel elevation: 39 m (128 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 Brakel'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 42 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.