Elevation of Cleves, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cleves, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Cleves's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 29 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 12 m.

Also written: Kleve Kleef Clèves Cleve.

Ground within 4 km

11 m – 89 m

Mean 32 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 78 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

210th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 787th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

10.2 km to the N, at 10 m, 43 m lower.

Cross-section through Cleves

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 Cleves; the vertical scale is the same on both.

963WE23.3 km
West to east: from 12 m at 12 km west to 13 m at 12 km east.
963NS23.3 km
North to south: from 10 m at 12 km north to 16 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Cleves, 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 Cleves

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rijnwaarden (Netherlands) 10.2 kmN 10 m (33 ft) −43 m
Emmerich 10.3 kmNE 18 m (59 ft) −35 m
Millingen (Netherlands) 10.4 kmNW 11 m (36 ft) −42 m
Goch 12 kmS 17 m (56 ft) −36 m
Groesbeek (Netherlands) 13.4 kmW 38 m (125 ft) −15 m

Where Cleves is

Latitude 51.786726, longitude 6.12954. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cleves elevation: 53 m (174 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 Cleves'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 29 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.