Elevation of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 64 m (210 ft) above sea level.
Essen's height from sea level is 64 metres, or 210 feet. GeoNames reads 83 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 116 m.
Also written: Essen an der Ruhr.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 77 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 100 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 740th of 1,000 in Germany.
Cross-section through Essen
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 Essen; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Essen
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gelsenkirchen | 8.2 km | NE | 45 m (148 ft) | −19 m |
| Bottrop | 8.6 km | NW | 46 m (151 ft) | −18 m |
| Mülheim | 9.5 km | W | 39 m (128 ft) | −25 m |
| Oberhausen | 11.5 km | W | 34 m (112 ft) | −30 m |
| Gladbeck | 12.2 km | N | 60 m (197 ft) | −4 m |
Peaks and passes near Essen
- Halde Hoheward, hill at 152 m (499 ft), 16.2 km to the NE — 88 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Essen is
Latitude 51.46227, longitude 7.0086533. 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 Essen'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 83 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.