Elevation of Dachau, Bavaria, Germany

Dachau, Bavaria, Germany is 486 m (1,594 ft) above sea level.

Dachau's height from sea level is 486 metres, or 1,594 feet. GeoNames reads 502 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 480 m.

Ground within 4 km

471 m – 516 m

Mean 489 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 45 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 118

among the towns of Bavaria, and 66th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

4.8 km to the SE, at 488 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Dachau

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Dachau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

539456WE24 km
West to east: from 517 m at 12 km west to 483 m at 12 km east.
539456NS24 km
North to south: from 464 m at 12 km north to 533 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Dachau, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 50 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 Dachau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Karlsfeld 4.8 kmSE 488 m (1,601 ft) +2 m
Gröbenzell 8.9 kmSW 507 m (1,663 ft) +21 m
Olching 9.6 kmSW 506 m (1,660 ft) +20 m
Unterschleißheim 11.9 kmE 479 m (1,572 ft) −7 m
Puchheim 14 kmSW 524 m (1,719 ft) +38 m

Peaks and passes near Dachau

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

Where Dachau is

Latitude 48.2629984, longitude 11.4339022. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dachau elevation: 486 m (1,594 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 Dachau'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 502 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.