Elevation of Hof, Bavaria, Germany

Hof, Bavaria, Germany is 497 m (1,631 ft) above sea level.

Hof's height from sea level is 497 metres, or 1,631 feet. GeoNames reads 491 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 500 m.

Ground within 4 km

475 m – 604 m

Mean 521 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 129 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 118

among the towns of Bavaria, and 59th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

18.7 km to the E, at 579 m, 82 m higher.

Cross-section through Hof

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hof; the vertical scale is the same on both.

636469WE23.6 km
West to east: from 584 m at 12 km west to 556 m at 12 km east.
636469NS23.6 km
North to south: from 624 m at 12 km north to 551 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Hof, 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 Hof

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hranice (Czech Republic) 18.7 kmE 579 m (1,900 ft) +82 m
Selb 22.3 kmSE 555 m (1,821 ft) +58 m
Plauen (Saxony) 25.9 kmNE 356 m (1,168 ft) −141 m
Hazlov (Czech Republic) 31.1 kmSE 541 m (1,775 ft) +44 m
Aš (Czech Republic) 32.1 kmE 547 m (1,795 ft) +50 m

Peaks and passes near Hof

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

Where Hof is

Latitude 50.3135391, longitude 11.9127814. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hof elevation: 497 m (1,631 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 Hof'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 491 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.