Elevation of Lichtenfels, Bavaria, Germany

Lichtenfels, Bavaria, Germany is 272 m (892 ft) above sea level.

Lichtenfels's height from sea level is 272 metres, or 892 feet. GeoNames reads 263 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 271 m.

Ground within 4 km

257 m – 478 m

Mean 324 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 221 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

106th of 118

among the towns of Bavaria, and 268th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

15.2 km to the NW, at 297 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through Lichtenfels

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lichtenfels; the vertical scale is the same on both.

565237WE23.6 km
West to east: from 301 m at 12 km west to 311 m at 12 km east.
565237NS23.6 km
North to south: from 377 m at 12 km north to 468 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Lichtenfels, 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 Lichtenfels

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Coburg 15.2 kmNW 297 m (974 ft) +25 m
Neustadt 20.8 kmN 338 m (1,109 ft) +66 m
Kronach 21.7 kmNE 309 m (1,014 ft) +37 m
Sonneberg (Thuringia) 25.3 kmN 416 m (1,365 ft) +144 m
Kulmbach 27.6 kmE 308 m (1,010 ft) +36 m

Peaks and passes near Lichtenfels

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

Where Lichtenfels is

Latitude 50.1432937, longitude 11.0630387. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lichtenfels elevation: 272 m (892 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 Lichtenfels'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 263 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.