Elevation of Forst, Brandenburg, Germany

Forst, Brandenburg, Germany is 78 m (256 ft) above sea level.

Forst's height from sea level is 78 metres, or 256 feet. GeoNames reads 80 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 76 m.

Also written: Baršć Baršć Lužyca Forst (Lausitz).

Ground within 4 km

66 m – 95 m

Mean 77 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 29 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 41

among the towns of Brandenburg, and 677th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

20.8 km to the W, at 76 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Forst

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 Forst; the vertical scale is the same on both.

15049WE23.3 km
West to east: from 87 m at 12 km west to 88 m at 12 km east.
15049NS23.3 km
North to south: from 56 m at 12 km north to 142 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Forst, 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 Forst

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cottbus 20.8 kmW 76 m (249 ft) −2 m
Łęknica (Poland) 22.5 kmS 117 m (384 ft) +39 m
Lubsko (Poland) 24 kmE 72 m (236 ft) −6 m
Guben 24.6 kmN 47 m (154 ft) −31 m
Gubin (Poland) 24.9 kmN 45 m (148 ft) −33 m

Peaks and passes near Forst

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

Where Forst is

Latitude 51.7333333, longitude 14.6333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Forst elevation: 78 m (256 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Forst'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 80 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.