Elevation of Oerlinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Oerlinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 241 m (791 ft) above sea level.

Oerlinghausen's height from sea level is 241 metres, or 791 feet. GeoNames reads 229 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 214 m.

Ground within 4 km

117 m – 286 m

Mean 175 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 169 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 310th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

7.2 km to the N, at 125 m, 116 m lower.

Cross-section through Oerlinghausen

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 Oerlinghausen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

30277WE23.2 km
West to east: from 124 m at 12 km west to 127 m at 12 km east.
30277NS23.2 km
North to south: from 93 m at 12 km north to 117 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Oerlinghausen, 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 Oerlinghausen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Leopoldshöhe 7.2 kmN 125 m (410 ft) −116 m
Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock 9 kmS 120 m (394 ft) −121 m
Lage 10.4 kmNE 112 m (367 ft) −129 m
Bielefeld 11.2 kmNW 109 m (358 ft) −132 m
Verl 13.8 kmSW 95 m (312 ft) −146 m

Peaks and passes near Oerlinghausen

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

Where Oerlinghausen is

Latitude 51.951983, longitude 8.6634723. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Oerlinghausen elevation: 241 m (791 ft) above sea level

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 Oerlinghausen'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 229 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.