Elevation of Klaksvík, Faroe Islands

Klaksvík, Faroe Islands is 384 m (1,260 ft) above sea level.

Klaksvík's height from sea level is 384 metres, or 1,260 feet. GeoNames reads 88 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 88 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 599 m

Mean 209 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 599 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 3

among the towns of Klaksvík, and 4th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

0 km to the N, at 384 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Klaksvík

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 Klaksvík; the vertical scale is the same on both.

769-57WE21.1 km
West to east: from 477 m at 11 km west to 130 m at 11 km east.
769-57NS21.1 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 Klaksvík, 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 Klaksvík

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Norðoyri 0 kmN 384 m (1,260 ft) same
Syðradalur (Norðoy) 5.3 kmNW 24 m (79 ft) −360 m
Haraldsund (Norðoy) 5.5 kmN 36 m (118 ft) −348 m
Leirvík (Syðra Eysturoy) 7.6 kmW 0 m (0 ft) −384 m
Húsar (Norðoy) 7.9 kmNW 0 m (0 ft) −384 m

Peaks and passes near Klaksvík

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

Where Klaksvík is

Latitude 62.2251623, longitude -6.5625104. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Klaksvík elevation: 384 m (1,260 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 Klaksvík'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 88 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.