Elevation of Burg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Burg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany is 47 m (154 ft) above sea level.

Burg's height from sea level is 47 metres, or 154 feet. GeoNames reads 44 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 52 m to 54 m.

Also written: Burg bei Magdeburg.

Ground within 4 km

36 m – 79 m

Mean 48 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 43 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 36

among the towns of Sachsen-Anhalt, and 818th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

21.9 km to the SW, at 56 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Burg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Burg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

9333WE23.2 km
West to east: from 40 m at 12 km west to 67 m at 12 km east.
9333NS23.2 km
North to south: from 42 m at 12 km north to 57 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Burg, 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 Burg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Magdeburg 21.9 kmSW 56 m (184 ft) +9 m
Genthin 25.2 kmNE 35 m (115 ft) −12 m
Hohe Börde 27.9 kmSW 125 m (410 ft) +78 m
Schönebeck 29.1 kmS 49 m (161 ft) +2 m
Haldensleben 29.8 kmW 51 m (167 ft) +4 m

Where Burg is

Latitude 52.2709013, longitude 11.8553502. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Burg elevation: 47 m (154 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 Burg'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 44 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.