Elevation of Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 61 m (200 ft) above sea level.

Erkrath's height from sea level is 61 metres, or 200 feet. GeoNames reads 56 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 56 m.

Ground within 4 km

42 m – 155 m

Mean 84 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 113 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

188th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 753rd of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Mettmann

5.7 km to the NE, at 148 m, 87 m higher.

Cross-section through Erkrath

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 Erkrath; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 46 m at 12 km west to 152 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 121 m at 12 km north to 47 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Erkrath, 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 Erkrath

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mettmann	5.7 km	NE	148 m (486 ft)	+87 m
Hilden	6.3 km	S	55 m (180 ft)	−6 m
Düsseldorf	6.8 km	W	43 m (141 ft)	−18 m
Haan	7.6 km	SE	155 m (509 ft)	+94 m
Ratingen	9.6 km	NW	46 m (151 ft)	−15 m

Where Erkrath is

Latitude 51.2213125, longitude 6.9073473. 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 Erkrath'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 56 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.