Elevation of Kürten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Kürten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 212 m (696 ft) above sea level.

Kürten's height from sea level is 212 metres, or 696 feet. GeoNames reads 181 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 185 m.

Ground within 4 km

163 m – 287 m

Mean 227 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 124 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

50th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 351st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Lindlar

8.8 km to the SE, at 245 m, 33 m higher.

Cross-section through Kürten

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 Kürten; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 145 m at 12 km west to 222 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 337 m at 12 km north to 204 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Kürten, 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 Kürten

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Lindlar	8.8 km	SE	245 m (804 ft)	+33 m
Wermelskirchen	10.1 km	N	282 m (925 ft)	+70 m
Odenthal	11.1 km	W	104 m (341 ft)	−108 m
Burscheid	11.2 km	W	184 m (604 ft)	−28 m
Hückeswagen	11.6 km	NE	303 m (994 ft)	+91 m

Peaks and passes near Kürten

Wienhagen, hill at 480 m (1,575 ft), 22.1 km to the E — 268 m above the town.
Gummershardt, hill at 438 m (1,437 ft), 17.6 km to the E — 226 m above the town.
Löh, hill at 416 m (1,365 ft), 18 km to the E — 204 m above the town.

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

Where Kürten is

Latitude 51.0532376, longitude 7.2634469. 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 Kürten'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 181 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.