Elevation of Roskilde, Sjælland, Denmark
Roskilde, Sjælland, Denmark is 26 m (85 ft) above sea level.
Roskilde's height from sea level is 26 metres, or 85 feet. GeoNames reads 41 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 27 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 27 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 54 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Roskilde
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Roskilde; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Roskilde
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vor Frue | 3.5 km | S | 46 m (151 ft) | +20 m |
| Vindinge | 3.8 km | SE | 51 m (167 ft) | +25 m |
| Veddelev | 4.1 km | N | 19 m (62 ft) | −7 m |
| Svogerslev | 4.6 km | W | 28 m (92 ft) | +2 m |
| Store Valby | 6.7 km | NE | 11 m (36 ft) | −15 m |
Peaks and passes near Roskilde
- Høbjerg, hill at 117 m (384 ft), 17.4 km to the SW — 91 m above the town.
- Egstallebjerg, hill at 94 m (308 ft), 13.8 km to the W — 68 m above the town.
- Kong Svends Høj, hill at 45 m (148 ft), 17.3 km to the NE — 19 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Roskilde is
Latitude 55.64191, longitude 12.087845. 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 Roskilde'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 41 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.