Elevation of Alsdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Alsdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 165 m (541 ft) above sea level.

Alsdorf's height from sea level is 165 metres, or 541 feet. GeoNames reads 167 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 163 m.

Ground within 4 km

119 m – 190 m

Mean 155 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 71 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

70th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 425th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

4.1 km to the N, at 129 m, 36 m lower.

Cross-section through Alsdorf

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 Alsdorf; the vertical scale is the same on both.

27746WE23.5 km
West to east: from 146 m at 12 km west to 131 m at 12 km east.
27746NS23.5 km
North to south: from 62 m at 12 km north to 261 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Alsdorf, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 Alsdorf

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Baesweiler 4.1 kmN 129 m (423 ft) −36 m
Herzogenrath 5.2 kmW 137 m (449 ft) −28 m
Würselen 6 kmSW 193 m (633 ft) +28 m
Übach-Palenberg 6.2 kmNW 117 m (384 ft) −48 m
Kerkrade (Netherlands) 6.6 kmW 160 m (525 ft) −5 m

Peaks and passes near Alsdorf

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

Where Alsdorf is

Latitude 50.8715885, longitude 6.1648392. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Alsdorf elevation: 165 m (541 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 Alsdorf'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 167 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.