Elevation of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States of America is 104 m (341 ft) above sea level.

Bethlehem's height from sea level is 104 metres, or 341 feet. GeoNames reads 111 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 109 m.

Ground within 5 km

77 m – 267 m

Mean 118 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 190 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 14

among the towns of Pennsylvania, and 551st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

10.3 km to the W, at 105 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Bethlehem

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bethlehem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

28664WE25.3 km
West to east: from 99 m at 13 km west to 267 m at 13 km east.
28664NS25.3 km
North to south: from 207 m at 13 km north to 200 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Bethlehem, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 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 Bethlehem

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Allentown 10.3 kmW 105 m (344 ft) +1 m

Peaks and passes near Bethlehem

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

Where Bethlehem is

Latitude 40.6259316, longitude -75.3704579. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bethlehem elevation: 104 m (341 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 Bethlehem'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 111 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.