Elevation of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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

Cologne's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. Wikidata records 59 m.

Also written: Köln Colonia Keulen Cöln.

Ground within 4 km

41 m – 72 m

Mean 52 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 31 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

Hürth

8.9 km to the S, at 67 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Cologne

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 Cologne; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 63 m at 12 km west to 51 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 40 m at 12 km north to 61 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Cologne, 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 Cologne

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Hürth	8.9 km	S	67 m (220 ft)	+14 m
Frechen	8.9 km	SW	75 m (246 ft)	+22 m
Pulheim	9.1 km	NW	51 m (167 ft)	−2 m
Leverkusen	12 km	NE	57 m (187 ft)	+4 m
Bergisch Gladbach	14.1 km	E	110 m (361 ft)	+57 m

Peaks and passes near Cologne

Lüderich, hill at 264 m (866 ft), 20.5 km to the E — 211 m above the town.
Glessener Höhe, hill at 205 m (673 ft), 13.6 km to the W — 152 m above the town.
Vollrather Höhe, hill at 175 m (574 ft), 24.5 km to the NW — 122 m above the town.

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

Where Cologne is

Latitude 50.9580867, longitude 6.9204493. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Cologne'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.