Elevation of Dessau-Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Dessau-Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany is 64 m (210 ft) above sea level.

Dessau-Roßlau's height from sea level is 64 metres, or 210 feet. GeoNames reads 63 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 59 m.

Also written: Dessau Roßlau.

Ground within 4 km

54 m – 72 m

Mean 62 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 18 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 36

among the towns of Sachsen-Anhalt, and 740th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Zerbst

16.7 km to the NW, at 69 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Dessau-Roßlau

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 Dessau-Roßlau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 63 m at 12 km west to 62 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 85 m at 12 km north to 84 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Dessau-Roßlau, 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 Dessau-Roßlau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Zerbst	16.7 km	NW	69 m (226 ft)	+5 m
Köthen	20.2 km	SW	76 m (249 ft)	+12 m
Sandersdorf-Brehna	24.8 km	S	86 m (282 ft)	+22 m
Bitterfeld-Wolfen	24.8 km	S	79 m (259 ft)	+15 m
Südliches Anhalt	25.7 km	SW	86 m (282 ft)	+22 m

Where Dessau-Roßlau is

Latitude 51.8428278, longitude 12.2303935. 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 Dessau-Roßlau'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 63 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.