Elevation of Hov, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands

Hov, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands is 217 m (712 ft) above sea level.

Hov's height from sea level is 217 metres, or 712 feet. GeoNames reads 34 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Hove.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 381 m

Mean 93 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 381 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 15

among the towns of Suðuroy, and 24th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

Porkeri

2.5 km to the S, at 39 m, 178 m lower.

Cross-section through Hov

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hov; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 247 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 45 km around Hov, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 45 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 Hov

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Porkeri	2.5 km	S	39 m (128 ft)	−178 m
Øravík	4.3 km	NW	74 m (243 ft)	−143 m
Vágur	4.4 km	SW	408 m (1,339 ft)	+191 m
Froðba	4.6 km	N	180 m (591 ft)	−37 m
Akrar	5.7 km	S	0 m (0 ft)	−217 m

Peaks and passes near Hov

Gluggarnir, peak at 610 m (2,001 ft), 7.4 km to the NW — 393 m above the town.
Borgarknappur, peak at 574 m (1,883 ft), 2.4 km to the W — 357 m above the town.
Nónfjall, peak at 367 m (1,204 ft), 3.8 km to the W — 150 m above the town.

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

Where Hov is

Latitude 61.506487, longitude -6.760162. 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 Hov'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 34 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.