Elevation of Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Munich, Bavaria, Germany is 526 m (1,726 ft) above sea level.

Munich's height from sea level is 526 metres, or 1,726 feet. GeoNames reads 524 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 519 m.

Also written: München Monaco di Bavaria.

Ground within 4 km

502 m – 552 m

Mean 522 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 50 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 118

among the towns of Bavaria, and 44th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Unterhaching

9.7 km to the SE, at 551 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through Munich

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Munich; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 531 m at 12 km west to 519 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 474 m at 12 km north to 607 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Munich, 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 Munich

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Unterhaching	9.7 km	SE	551 m (1,808 ft)	+25 m
Taufkirchen	11.2 km	S	561 m (1,841 ft)	+35 m
Karlsfeld	11.2 km	NW	488 m (1,601 ft)	−38 m
Ottobrunn	12 km	SE	558 m (1,831 ft)	+32 m
Ismaning	12.5 km	NE	488 m (1,601 ft)	−38 m

Peaks and passes near Munich

Perlacher Mugl, hill at 594 m (1,949 ft), 8.5 km to the S — 68 m above the town.

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

Where Munich is

Latitude 48.1448353, longitude 11.5580067. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Munich'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 524 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.