Elevation of Behren-lès-Forbach, Lorraine, France

Behren-lès-Forbach, Lorraine, France is 305 m (1,001 ft) above sea level.

Behren-lès-Forbach's height from sea level is 305 metres, or 1,001 feet. GeoNames reads 319 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

216 m – 370 m

Mean 297 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 154 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 37

among the towns of Lorraine, and 80th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

3.9 km to the N, at 228 m, 77 m lower.

Cross-section through Behren-lès-Forbach

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Behren-lès-Forbach; the vertical scale is the same on both.

378182WE23.8 km
West to east: from 250 m at 12 km west to 290 m at 12 km east.
378182NS23.8 km
North to south: from 330 m at 12 km north to 231 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Behren-lès-Forbach, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 50 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 Behren-lès-Forbach

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stiring-Wendel 3.9 kmN 228 m (748 ft) −77 m
Forbach 4.3 kmNW 216 m (709 ft) −89 m
Saarbrücken (Germany) 8.9 kmNE 198 m (650 ft) −107 m
Freyming-Merlebach 10.1 kmW 210 m (689 ft) −95 m
Sarreguemines 11.4 kmSE 211 m (692 ft) −94 m

Peaks and passes near Behren-lès-Forbach

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

Where Behren-lès-Forbach is

Latitude 49.167286, longitude 6.946053. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Behren-lès-Forbach elevation: 305 m (1,001 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 Behren-lès-Forbach'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 319 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.