Elevation of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany

Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany is 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.

Gifhorn's height from sea level is 56 metres, or 184 feet. GeoNames reads 53 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 53 m.

Ground within 4 km

51 m – 65 m

Mean 57 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 14 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

47th of 121

among the towns of Lower Saxony, and 771st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Wolfsburg

15.3 km to the E, at 57 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Gifhorn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gifhorn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 61 m at 12 km west to 62 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 61 m at 12 km north to 80 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Gifhorn, 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 Gifhorn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Wolfsburg	15.3 km	E	57 m (187 ft)	+1 m
Brunswick	23.2 km	S	75 m (246 ft)	+19 m
Uetze	23.5 km	W	54 m (177 ft)	−2 m
Peine	27.1 km	SW	68 m (223 ft)	+12 m
Vechelde	27.2 km	SW	78 m (256 ft)	+22 m

Peaks and passes near Gifhorn

Großer Scheelenberg, hill at 66 m (217 ft), 24.7 km to the W — 10 m above the town.
Dieksberg, hill at 64 m (210 ft), 24.1 km to the W — 8 m above the town.

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

Where Gifhorn is

Latitude 52.4771158, longitude 10.5495764. 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 Gifhorn'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 53 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.