Elevation of Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany is 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.

Magdeburg's height from sea level is 56 metres, or 184 feet. GeoNames reads 47 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 50 m to 64 m.

Also written: Magdeburgo.

Ground within 4 km

42 m – 75 m

Mean 54 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 33 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 36

among the towns of Sachsen-Anhalt, and 771st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Hohe Börde

10.7 km to the W, at 125 m, 69 m higher.

Cross-section through Magdeburg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Magdeburg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 92 m at 12 km west to 43 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 54 m at 12 km north to 88 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Magdeburg, 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 Magdeburg

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Hohe Börde	10.7 km	W	125 m (410 ft)	+69 m
Wanzleben-Börde	14.9 km	SW	105 m (344 ft)	+49 m
Schönebeck	15.1 km	SE	49 m (161 ft)	−7 m
Burg	21.9 km	NE	47 m (154 ft)	−9 m
Haldensleben	22.3 km	NW	51 m (167 ft)	−5 m

Where Magdeburg is

Latitude 52.130807, longitude 11.628878. 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 Magdeburg'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 47 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.