Elevation of Plauen, Saxony, Germany

Plauen, Saxony, Germany is 356 m (1,168 ft) above sea level.

Plauen's height from sea level is 356 metres, or 1,168 feet. GeoNames reads 361 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 412 m.

Also written: Plauen im Vogtland.

Ground within 4 km

335 m – 474 m

Mean 406 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 139 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 47

among the towns of Saxony, and 166th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

17.6 km to the NE, at 365 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Plauen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Plauen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

545310WE23.5 km
West to east: from 491 m at 12 km west to 493 m at 12 km east.
545310NS23.5 km
North to south: from 363 m at 12 km north to 528 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Plauen, 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 Plauen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Reichenbach 17.6 kmNE 365 m (1,198 ft) +9 m
Auerbach 18.5 kmE 490 m (1,608 ft) +134 m
Greiz (Thuringia) 18.6 kmN 320 m (1,050 ft) −36 m
Zeulenroda (Thuringia) 20.1 kmNW 413 m (1,355 ft) +57 m
Hranice (Czech Republic) 21.5 kmS 579 m (1,900 ft) +223 m

Peaks and passes near Plauen

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

Where Plauen is

Latitude 50.4976133, longitude 12.1368679. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Plauen elevation: 356 m (1,168 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 Plauen'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 361 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.