Elevation of Garching, Bavaria, Germany

Garching, Bavaria, Germany is 482 m (1,581 ft) above sea level.

Garching's height from sea level is 482 metres, or 1,581 feet. GeoNames reads 485 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 482 m.

Also written: Garching bei München Garching b.München.

Ground within 4 km

468 m – 503 m

Mean 483 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 35 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 118

among the towns of Bavaria, and 70th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

3 km to the SE, at 488 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Garching

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

537446WE24 km
West to east: from 484 m at 12 km west to 485 m at 12 km east.
537446NS24 km
North to south: from 469 m at 12 km north to 530 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Garching, 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 Garching

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ismaning 3 kmSE 488 m (1,601 ft) +6 m
Unterschleißheim 4.6 kmW 479 m (1,572 ft) −3 m
Neufahrn 7.4 kmN 463 m (1,519 ft) −19 m
Karlsfeld 13.4 kmW 488 m (1,601 ft) +6 m
Munich 13.6 kmSW 526 m (1,726 ft) +44 m

Peaks and passes near Garching

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

Where Garching is

Latitude 48.2488721, longitude 11.6532477. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Garching elevation: 482 m (1,581 ft) above sea level

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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 Garching'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 485 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.