Elevation of Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 55 m (180 ft) above sea level.

Hilden's height from sea level is 55 metres, or 180 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 50 m.

Ground within 4 km

42 m – 129 m

Mean 64 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 87 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

204th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 776th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

5.5 km to the S, at 53 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Hilden

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 Hilden; the vertical scale is the same on both.

21422WE23.4 km
West to east: from 37 m at 12 km west to 200 m at 12 km east.
21422NS23.4 km
North to south: from 152 m at 12 km north to 36 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Hilden, 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 Hilden

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Langenfeld 5.5 kmS 53 m (174 ft) −2 m
Haan 5.7 kmNE 155 m (509 ft) +100 m
Erkrath 6.3 kmN 61 m (200 ft) +6 m
Solingen 8.3 kmE 192 m (630 ft) +137 m
Leichlingen 8.9 kmSE 67 m (220 ft) +12 m

Peaks and passes near Hilden

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

Where Hilden is

Latitude 51.1678567, longitude 6.9352253. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hilden elevation: 55 m (180 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 Hilden'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 52 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.