Elevation of Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 116 m (381 ft) above sea level.

Paderborn's height from sea level is 116 metres, or 381 feet. GeoNames reads 118 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 94 m.

Ground within 4 km

103 m – 246 m

Mean 145 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 143 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

95th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 541st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8.3 km to the NE, at 151 m, 35 m higher.

Cross-section through Paderborn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Paderborn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

33889WE23.3 km
West to east: from 107 m at 12 km west to 320 m at 12 km east.
33889NS23.3 km
North to south: from 160 m at 12 km north to 271 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Paderborn, 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 Paderborn

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bad Lippspringe 8.3 kmNE 151 m (495 ft) +35 m
Salzkotten 12.2 kmSW 99 m (325 ft) −17 m
Hövelhof 13.6 kmNW 106 m (348 ft) −10 m
Delbrück 14.5 kmW 97 m (318 ft) −19 m
Bad Driburg 18.3 kmE 212 m (696 ft) +96 m

Peaks and passes near Paderborn

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

Where Paderborn is

Latitude 51.7189205, longitude 8.7575093. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Paderborn elevation: 116 m (381 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 Paderborn'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 118 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.