Elevation of Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 270 m (886 ft) above sea level.

Gummersbach's height from sea level is 270 metres, or 886 feet. GeoNames reads 253 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 250 m.

Ground within 4 km

198 m – 467 m

Mean 305 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 269 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

36th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 274th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

5.1 km to the E, at 241 m, 29 m lower.

Cross-section through Gummersbach

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gummersbach; the vertical scale is the same on both.

462194WE23.4 km
West to east: from 227 m at 12 km west to 396 m at 12 km east.
462194NS23.4 km
North to south: from 396 m at 12 km north to 296 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Gummersbach, 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 Gummersbach

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bergneustadt 5.1 kmE 241 m (791 ft) −29 m
Wiehl 7.9 kmS 226 m (741 ft) −44 m
Reichshof 10.3 kmSE 354 m (1,161 ft) +84 m
Meinerzhagen 10.9 kmNE 436 m (1,430 ft) +166 m
Engelskirchen 11.8 kmW 148 m (486 ft) −122 m

Peaks and passes near Gummersbach

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

Where Gummersbach is

Latitude 51.0189655, longitude 7.5778002. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gummersbach elevation: 270 m (886 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 Gummersbach'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 253 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.