Elevation of Haraldsund, Norðoy, Faroe Islands

Haraldsund, Norðoy, Faroe Islands is 36 m (118 ft) above sea level.

Haraldsund's height from sea level is 36 metres, or 118 feet. GeoNames reads 38 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Haraldssund.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 737 m

Mean 229 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 737 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 10

among the towns of Norðoy, and 68th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

3.3 km to the SW, at 24 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Haraldsund

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Haraldsund; the vertical scale is the same on both.

751-56WE21.1 km
West to east: from 97 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
751-56NS21.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Haraldsund, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 44 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 Haraldsund

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Syðradalur 3.3 kmSW 24 m (79 ft) −12 m
Kunoy 3.6 kmW 1 m (3 ft) −35 m
Húsar 4 kmW 0 m (0 ft) −36 m
Klaksvík (Klaksvík) 5.5 kmS 384 m (1,260 ft) +348 m
Norðoyri (Klaksvík) 5.5 kmS 384 m (1,260 ft) +348 m

Peaks and passes near Haraldsund

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

Where Haraldsund is

Latitude 62.2705578, longitude -6.6027899. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Haraldsund elevation: 36 m (118 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Haraldsund'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 38 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.