Elevation of Altena, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Altena, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 349 m (1,145 ft) above sea level.
Altena's height from sea level is 349 metres, or 1,145 feet. GeoNames reads 167 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 190 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 351 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 278 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 173rd of 1,000 in Germany.
Cross-section through Altena
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Altena; 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 Altena
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Werdohl | 6.9 km | SE | 212 m (696 ft) | −137 m |
| Iserlohn | 8.1 km | N | 229 m (751 ft) | −120 m |
| Hemer | 10.2 km | NE | 234 m (768 ft) | −115 m |
| Lüdenscheid | 10.5 km | SW | 409 m (1,342 ft) | +60 m |
| Plettenberg | 15.6 km | SE | 259 m (850 ft) | −90 m |
Peaks and passes near Altena
- Nordhelle, peak at 663 m (2,175 ft), 17.6 km to the S — 314 m above the town.
- Sellenstücke, peak at 650 m (2,133 ft), 24 km to the E — 301 m above the town.
- Schomberg, peak at 648 m (2,126 ft), 22.4 km to the E — 299 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Altena is
Latitude 51.3026052, longitude 7.7028846. 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 Altena'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.