Elevation of Backnang, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Backnang, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is 270 m (886 ft) above sea level.

Backnang's height from sea level is 270 metres, or 886 feet. GeoNames reads 245 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 271 m.

Ground within 4 km

255 m – 373 m

Mean 297 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 118 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

84th of 140

among the towns of Baden-Württemberg, and 274th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8.5 km to the S, at 282 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Backnang

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Backnang; the vertical scale is the same on both.

544204WE23.8 km
West to east: from 241 m at 12 km west to 520 m at 12 km east.
544204NS23.8 km
North to south: from 481 m at 12 km north to 377 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Backnang, 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 Backnang

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Winnenden 8.5 kmS 282 m (925 ft) +12 m
Marbach 12.4 kmW 257 m (843 ft) −13 m
Weinstadt 16 kmS 237 m (778 ft) −33 m
Remseck 16 kmSW 250 m (820 ft) −20 m
Waiblingen 16.3 kmSW 252 m (827 ft) −18 m

Peaks and passes near Backnang

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

Where Backnang is

Latitude 48.9471455, longitude 9.4341813. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Backnang 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 Backnang'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 245 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.