Elevation of Germantown, Maryland, United States of America

Germantown, Maryland, United States of America is 139 m (456 ft) above sea level.

Germantown's height from sea level is 139 metres, or 456 feet. GeoNames reads 137 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 134 m.

Ground within 5 km

87 m – 179 m

Mean 132 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 92 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 22

among the towns of Maryland, and 497th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Gaithersburg

6.9 km to the SE, at 147 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Germantown

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Germantown; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 143 m at 13 km west to 161 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 185 m at 13 km north to 80 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Germantown, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Germantown

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Gaithersburg	6.9 km	SE	147 m (482 ft)	+8 m
Rockville	14.3 km	SE	140 m (459 ft)	+1 m
Potomac	18.1 km	S	107 m (351 ft)	−32 m
North Bethesda	19.4 km	SE	117 m (384 ft)	−22 m
Aspen Hill	20 km	SE	104 m (341 ft)	−35 m

Peaks and passes near Germantown

Sugar Loaf Mountain, peak at 315 m (1,033 ft), 14.3 km to the NW — 176 m above the town.
Annapolis Rock, peak at 184 m (604 ft), 16.9 km to the NE — 45 m above the town.
Hunting Hill, peak at 156 m (512 ft), 11.7 km to the SE — 17 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Germantown is

Latitude 39.1731621, longitude -77.2716502. 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 Germantown'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 137 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.