Elevation of Brakel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Brakel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 138 m (453 ft) above sea level.

Brakel's height from sea level is 138 metres, or 453 feet. GeoNames reads 136 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 135 m.

Ground within 4 km

131 m – 267 m

Mean 191 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 136 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

82nd of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 482nd of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

11.2 km to the W, at 212 m, 74 m higher.

Cross-section through Brakel

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 Brakel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

292126WE23.3 km
West to east: from 190 m at 12 km west to 227 m at 12 km east.
292126NS23.3 km
North to south: from 182 m at 12 km north to 247 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Brakel, 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 Brakel

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bad Driburg 11.2 kmW 212 m (696 ft) +74 m
Höxter 15 kmNE 101 m (331 ft) −37 m
Holzminden (Lower Saxony) 22.5 kmNE 106 m (348 ft) −32 m
Horn-Bad Meinberg 23.8 kmNW 211 m (692 ft) +73 m
Warburg 25.4 kmS 193 m (633 ft) +55 m

Peaks and passes near Brakel

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

Where Brakel is

Latitude 51.7174281, longitude 9.1826223. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Brakel elevation: 138 m (453 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 Brakel'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 136 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.