Elevation of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 85 m (279 ft) above sea level.
Bochum's height from sea level is 85 metres, or 279 feet. GeoNames reads 102 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 100 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 102 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 128 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 657th of 1,000 in Germany.
Cross-section through Bochum
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bochum; 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 Bochum
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herne | 7.5 km | N | 58 m (190 ft) | −27 m |
| Hattingen | 7.6 km | S | 92 m (302 ft) | +7 m |
| Gelsenkirchen | 9.5 km | NW | 45 m (148 ft) | −40 m |
| Witten | 11.1 km | E | 114 m (374 ft) | +29 m |
| Sprockhövel | 12.2 km | S | 181 m (594 ft) | +96 m |
Peaks and passes near Bochum
- Halde Hoheward, hill at 152 m (499 ft), 11.2 km to the N — 67 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Bochum is
Latitude 51.4696168, longitude 7.1987347. 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 Bochum'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 102 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.