Elevation of Lauf, Bavaria, Germany

Lauf, Bavaria, Germany is 335 m (1,099 ft) above sea level.

Lauf's height from sea level is 335 metres, or 1,099 feet. GeoNames reads 334 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Lauf a.d.Pegnitz.

Ground within 4 km

317 m – 524 m

Mean 366 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 207 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

89th of 118

among the towns of Bavaria, and 188th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Altdorf

15.1 km to the S, at 442 m, 107 m higher.

Cross-section through Lauf

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lauf; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 390 m at 12 km west to 349 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 511 m at 12 km north to 420 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Lauf, 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 Lauf

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Altdorf	15.1 km	S	442 m (1,450 ft)	+107 m
Nuremberg	15.6 km	SW	311 m (1,020 ft)	−24 m
Wendelstein	19.9 km	SW	342 m (1,122 ft)	+7 m
Erlangen	21 km	NW	285 m (935 ft)	−50 m
Fürth	21 km	W	300 m (984 ft)	−35 m

Peaks and passes near Lauf

Kappersberg, hill at 651 m (2,136 ft), 24.3 km to the E — 316 m above the town.
Brunnberg, hill at 646 m (2,119 ft), 25 km to the E — 311 m above the town.
Hohenstein, hill at 624 m (2,047 ft), 13.4 km to the NE — 289 m above the town.

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

Where Lauf is

Latitude 49.5110483, longitude 11.2780245. 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 Lauf'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 334 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.