Elevation of Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is 111 m (364 ft) above sea level.

Heidelberg's height from sea level is 111 metres, or 364 feet. GeoNames reads 115 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 114 m.

Ground within 4 km

103 m – 393 m

Mean 150 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 290 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

133rd of 140

among the towns of Baden-Württemberg, and 561st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the W, at 111 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Heidelberg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Heidelberg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

57664WE23.7 km
West to east: from 100 m at 12 km west to 136 m at 12 km east.
57664NS23.7 km
North to south: from 177 m at 12 km north to 111 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Heidelberg, 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 Heidelberg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Eppelheim 3.1 kmW 111 m (364 ft) same
Leimen 5.6 kmS 110 m (361 ft) −1 m
Schwetzingen 7.4 kmW 103 m (338 ft) −8 m
Schriesheim 8.4 kmN 119 m (390 ft) +8 m
Walldorf 10.5 kmS 108 m (354 ft) −3 m

Peaks and passes near Heidelberg

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

Where Heidelberg is

Latitude 49.3987524, longitude 8.6724335. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Heidelberg elevation: 111 m (364 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 Heidelberg'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 115 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.