Elevation of Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Dresden, Saxony, Germany is 129 m (423 ft) above sea level.

Dresden's height from sea level is 129 metres, or 423 feet. GeoNames reads 116 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 126 m.

Also written: Dresda Dresde.

Ground within 4 km

108 m – 309 m

Mean 152 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 201 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 47

among the towns of Saxony, and 497th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Freital

8.1 km to the SW, at 169 m, 40 m higher.

Cross-section through Dresden

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 Dresden; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 247 m at 12 km west to 268 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 196 m at 12 km north to 330 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Dresden, 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 Dresden

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Freital	8.1 km	SW	169 m (554 ft)	+40 m
Heidenau	9.7 km	SE	121 m (397 ft)	−8 m
Radebeul	11.7 km	NW	145 m (476 ft)	+16 m
Radeberg	14.3 km	NE	239 m (784 ft)	+110 m
Pirna	15.3 km	SE	123 m (404 ft)	−6 m

Peaks and passes near Dresden

Schenkenshöhe, hill at 676 m (2,218 ft), 24.3 km to the S — 547 m above the town.
Kohlkuppe, hill at 613 m (2,011 ft), 20.4 km to the S — 484 m above the town.
Luchberg, hill at 576 m (1,890 ft), 18.2 km to the S — 447 m above the town.

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

Where Dresden is

Latitude 51.0305106, longitude 13.7572182. 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 Dresden'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 116 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.