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

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
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bad Lippspringe | 8.3 km | NE | 151 m (495 ft) | +35 m |
| Salzkotten | 12.2 km | SW | 99 m (325 ft) | −17 m |
| Hövelhof | 13.6 km | NW | 106 m (348 ft) | −10 m |
| Delbrück | 14.5 km | W | 97 m (318 ft) | −19 m |
| Bad Driburg | 18.3 km | E | 212 m (696 ft) | +96 m |
Peaks and passes near Paderborn
- Velmerstot, peak at 468 m (1,535 ft), 18.6 km to the NE — 352 m above the town.
- Barnacken, peak at 445 m (1,460 ft), 18.2 km to the NE — 329 m above the town.
- Lippischer Velmerstot, peak at 441 m (1,447 ft), 19.1 km to the NE — 325 m above the town.
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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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.