Elevation of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 170 m (558 ft) above sea level.
Aachen's height from sea level is 170 metres, or 558 feet. GeoNames reads 178 m at the same point (SRTM).
Also written: Aken Aix-la-Chapelle Aquisgrán.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 210 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 191 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 417th of 1,000 in Germany.
Cross-section through Aachen
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Aachen; 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 Aachen
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Würselen | 5.8 km | N | 193 m (633 ft) | +23 m |
| Vaals (Netherlands) | 6.4 km | W | 210 m (689 ft) | +40 m |
| Stolberg | 8.7 km | E | 203 m (666 ft) | +33 m |
| Kelmis (Belgium) | 8.9 km | SW | 219 m (719 ft) | +49 m |
| Herzogenrath | 10.2 km | N | 137 m (449 ft) | −33 m |
Peaks and passes near Aachen
- Auf der Höhe, hill at 559 m (1,834 ft), 24.1 km to the SE — 389 m above the town.
- Peterberg, hill at 491 m (1,611 ft), 19.1 km to the SE — 321 m above the town.
- Schaar-Berg, hill at 377 m (1,237 ft), 22.9 km to the E — 207 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Aachen is
Latitude 50.7733179, longitude 6.1021106. 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 Aachen'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 178 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.