Elevation of Kreuzau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Kreuzau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 148 m (486 ft) above sea level.

Kreuzau's height from sea level is 148 metres, or 486 feet. GeoNames reads 148 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 148 m to 163 m.

Ground within 4 km

129 m – 326 m

Mean 189 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 197 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

77th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 456th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

6.2 km to the N, at 128 m, 20 m lower.

Cross-section through Kreuzau

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kreuzau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

41690WE23.5 km
West to east: from 320 m at 12 km west to 139 m at 12 km east.
41690NS23.5 km
North to south: from 117 m at 12 km north to 393 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Kreuzau, 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 Kreuzau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Düren 6.2 kmN 128 m (420 ft) −20 m
Zülpich 13 kmSE 169 m (554 ft) +21 m
Eschweiler 17.5 kmNW 150 m (492 ft) +2 m
Stolberg 18.9 kmW 203 m (666 ft) +55 m
Kerpen 19.9 kmNE 87 m (285 ft) −61 m

Peaks and passes near Kreuzau

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

Where Kreuzau is

Latitude 50.7472121, longitude 6.4906405. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kreuzau elevation: 148 m (486 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 Kreuzau'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 148 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.