Elevation of Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is 278 m (912 ft) above sea level.

Freiburg's height from sea level is 278 metres, or 912 feet. GeoNames reads 279 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 278 m.

Also written: Freiburg im Breisgau Fribourg Fribourg-en-Brisgau.

Ground within 4 km

218 m – 748 m

Mean 333 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 530 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

81st of 140

among the towns of Baden-Württemberg, and 261st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Emmendingen

13.2 km to the N, at 211 m, 67 m lower.

Cross-section through Freiburg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Freiburg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 205 m at 12 km west to 431 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 202 m at 12 km north to 666 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Freiburg, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 50 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 Freiburg

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Emmendingen	13.2 km	N	211 m (692 ft)	−67 m
Waldkirch	13.4 km	NE	343 m (1,125 ft)	+65 m
Bad Krozingen	14 km	SW	237 m (778 ft)	−41 m
Müllheim	26.9 km	SW	261 m (856 ft)	−17 m
Colmar (France)	37 km	W	191 m (627 ft)	−87 m

Peaks and passes near Freiburg

Feldberg, peak at 1,493 m (4,898 ft), 18.4 km to the SE — 1,215 m above the town.
Baldenweger Buck, hill at 1,461 m (4,793 ft), 18.6 km to the SE — 1,183 m above the town.
Seebuck, peak at 1,448 m (4,751 ft), 20.1 km to the SE — 1,170 m above the town.

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

Where Freiburg is

Latitude 47.9990077, longitude 7.8421043. 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 Freiburg'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 279 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.