Elevation of Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 83 m (272 ft) above sea level.
Ahlen's height from sea level is 83 metres, or 272 feet. GeoNames reads 82 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 80 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 82 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 34 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 664th of 1,000 in Germany.
Cross-section through Ahlen
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ahlen; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Ahlen
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckum | 10 km | E | 116 m (381 ft) | +33 m |
| Hamm | 11.1 km | SW | 64 m (210 ft) | −19 m |
| Drensteinfurt | 11.8 km | W | 65 m (213 ft) | −18 m |
| Ennigerloh | 12.8 km | NE | 105 m (344 ft) | +22 m |
| Oelde | 18.8 km | NE | 94 m (308 ft) | +11 m |
Peaks and passes near Ahlen
- Rhynerberg, hill at 91 m (299 ft), 13.9 km to the S — 8 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Ahlen is
Latitude 51.7600942, longitude 7.8973228. 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 Ahlen'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 82 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.