Elevation of Kempten, Bavaria, Germany

Kempten, Bavaria, Germany is 674 m (2,211 ft) above sea level.

Kempten's height from sea level is 674 metres, or 2,211 feet. GeoNames reads 681 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 674 m to 699 m.

Also written: Kempten (Allgäu).

Ground within 4 km

650 m – 815 m

Mean 712 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 165 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 118

among the towns of Bavaria, and 11th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Marktoberdorf

22.9 km to the E, at 730 m, 56 m higher.

Cross-section through Kempten

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kempten; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 953 m at 12 km west to 898 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 838 m at 12 km north to 1,002 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Kempten, 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 Kempten

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Marktoberdorf	22.9 km	E	730 m (2,395 ft)	+56 m
Sonthofen	24.3 km	S	748 m (2,454 ft)	+74 m
Leutkirch (Baden-Württemberg)	24.5 km	NW	655 m (2,149 ft)	−19 m
Kaufbeuren	28.5 km	NE	677 m (2,221 ft)	+3 m
Memmingen	29.7 km	N	601 m (1,972 ft)	−73 m

Peaks and passes near Kempten

Grünten, peak at 1,738 m (5,702 ft), 20.2 km to the S — 1,064 m above the town.
Wertacher Hörnle, peak at 1,684 m (5,525 ft), 21.6 km to the S — 1,010 m above the town.
Spieser, peak at 1,651 m (5,417 ft), 23.5 km to the S — 977 m above the town.

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

Where Kempten is

Latitude 47.733333, longitude 10.316667. 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 Kempten'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 681 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.