Elevation of Plettenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Plettenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 259 m (850 ft) above sea level.

Plettenberg's height from sea level is 259 metres, or 850 feet. GeoNames reads 230 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 240 m.

Ground within 4 km

217 m – 522 m

Mean 368 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 305 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 286th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8.3 km to the SE, at 276 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through Plettenberg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Plettenberg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

559191WE23.4 km
West to east: from 418 m at 12 km west to 533 m at 12 km east.
559191NS23.4 km
North to south: from 245 m at 12 km north to 341 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Plettenberg, 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 Plettenberg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Finnentrop 8.3 kmSE 276 m (906 ft) +17 m
Werdohl 8.7 kmNW 212 m (696 ft) −47 m
Attendorn 9 kmS 283 m (928 ft) +24 m
Altena 15.6 kmNW 349 m (1,145 ft) +90 m
Sundern 15.9 kmNE 260 m (853 ft) +1 m

Peaks and passes near Plettenberg

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

Where Plettenberg is

Latitude 51.209623, longitude 7.8701794. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Plettenberg elevation: 259 m (850 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 Plettenberg'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 230 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.