Elevation of Gießen, Hassia, Germany
Gießen, Hassia, Germany is 164 m (538 ft) above sea level.
Gießen's height from sea level is 164 metres, or 538 feet. GeoNames reads 162 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 155 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 185 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 138 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Gießen
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gießen; 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 Gießen
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pohlheim | 6.9 km | S | 211 m (692 ft) | +47 m |
| Wetzlar | 13.3 km | W | 161 m (528 ft) | −3 m |
| Butzbach | 17 km | S | 205 m (673 ft) | +41 m |
| Marburg | 24.5 km | N | 185 m (607 ft) | +21 m |
| Bad Nauheim | 24.7 km | S | 164 m (538 ft) | same |
Peaks and passes near Gießen
- Hesselberg, peak at 518 m (1,699 ft), 22.7 km to the SW — 354 m above the town.
- Dünsberg, hill at 498 m (1,634 ft), 10.5 km to the NW — 334 m above the town.
- Hinterster Kopf, hill at 491 m (1,611 ft), 21.4 km to the S — 327 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Gießen is
Latitude 50.5871416, longitude 8.6909259. 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 Gießen'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 162 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.