Elevation of Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 58 m (190 ft) above sea level.
Herne's height from sea level is 58 metres, or 190 feet. GeoNames reads 67 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 65 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 63 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 83 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 762nd of 1,000 in Germany.
Cross-section through Herne
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 Herne; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Herne
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recklinghausen | 6.4 km | N | 63 m (207 ft) | +5 m |
| Bochum | 7.5 km | S | 85 m (279 ft) | +27 m |
| Gelsenkirchen | 8.2 km | W | 45 m (148 ft) | −13 m |
| Herten | 8.4 km | NW | 81 m (266 ft) | +23 m |
| Castrop-Rauxel | 8.4 km | E | 69 m (226 ft) | +11 m |
Peaks and passes near Herne
- Halde Hoheward, hill at 152 m (499 ft), 4.2 km to the NW — 94 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Herne is
Latitude 51.5368948, longitude 7.2009147. 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 Herne'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 67 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.