Elevation of Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 49 m (161 ft) above sea level.

Haltern's height from sea level is 49 metres, or 161 feet. GeoNames reads 45 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 40 m.

Also written: Haltern am See.

Ground within 4 km

35 m – 124 m

Mean 66 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 89 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

221st of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 805th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

10.9 km to the SW, at 57 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Haltern

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Haltern; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11134WE23.3 km
West to east: from 66 m at 12 km west to 47 m at 12 km east.
11134NS23.3 km
North to south: from 66 m at 12 km north to 105 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Haltern, 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 Haltern

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Marl 10.9 kmSW 57 m (187 ft) +8 m
Dülmen 11.9 kmNE 71 m (233 ft) +22 m
Oer-Erkenschwick 12.5 kmSE 85 m (279 ft) +36 m
Datteln 15.1 kmSE 53 m (174 ft) +4 m
Herten 16.1 kmS 81 m (266 ft) +32 m

Peaks and passes near Haltern

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

Where Haltern is

Latitude 51.7446414, longitude 7.1829794. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Haltern elevation: 49 m (161 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 Haltern'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 45 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.