Elevation of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is 119 m (390 ft) above sea level.

Karlsruhe's height from sea level is 119 metres, or 390 feet. GeoNames reads 118 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 121 m.

Also written: Carlsruhe.

Ground within 4 km

102 m – 125 m

Mean 115 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 23 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

126th of 140

among the towns of Baden-Württemberg, and 529th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

7.4 km to the S, at 126 m, 7 m higher.

Cross-section through Karlsruhe

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Karlsruhe; the vertical scale is the same on both.

42876WE23.8 km
West to east: from 104 m at 12 km west to 186 m at 12 km east.
42876NS23.8 km
North to south: from 103 m at 12 km north to 403 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Karlsruhe, 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 Karlsruhe

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ettlingen 7.4 kmS 126 m (413 ft) +7 m
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 7.8 kmN 112 m (367 ft) −7 m
Rheinstetten 8.3 kmSW 114 m (374 ft) −5 m
Stutensee 9 kmNE 113 m (371 ft) −6 m
Wörth (Rhineland-Palatinate) 10.1 kmNW 112 m (367 ft) −7 m

Peaks and passes near Karlsruhe

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

Where Karlsruhe is

Latitude 49.009148, longitude 8.3799444. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Karlsruhe elevation: 119 m (390 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 Karlsruhe'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 118 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.