Elevation of Rahden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Rahden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 45 m (148 ft) above sea level.

Rahden's height from sea level is 45 metres, or 148 feet. GeoNames reads 48 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 39 m to 48 m.

Ground within 4 km

38 m – 51 m

Mean 41 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 13 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

232nd of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 830th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Espelkamp

6 km to the S, at 57 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Rahden

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rahden; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 42 m at 12 km west to 44 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 36 m at 12 km north to 63 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Rahden, 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 Rahden

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Espelkamp	6 km	S	57 m (187 ft)	+12 m
Lübbecke	14 km	S	64 m (210 ft)	+19 m
Hille	14.5 km	SE	53 m (174 ft)	+8 m
Bad Essen (Lower Saxony)	22.1 km	SW	54 m (177 ft)	+9 m
Minden	24.5 km	SE	58 m (190 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Rahden

Heidbrink, peak at 320 m (1,050 ft), 16 km to the S — 275 m above the town.
Wurzelbrink, peak at 318 m (1,043 ft), 17 km to the S — 273 m above the town.
Nonnenstein, peak at 274 m (899 ft), 21.6 km to the SW — 229 m above the town.

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

Where Rahden is

Latitude 52.4357364, longitude 8.6159777. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Rahden'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 48 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.