Elevation of Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 46 m (151 ft) above sea level.

Ratingen's height from sea level is 46 metres, or 151 feet. GeoNames reads 64 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 50 m.

Ground within 4 km

39 m – 122 m

Mean 64 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 83 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

228th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 823rd of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8.7 km to the S, at 43 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Ratingen

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 Ratingen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

17217WE23.4 km
West to east: from 34 m at 12 km west to 161 m at 12 km east.
17217NS23.4 km
North to south: from 65 m at 12 km north to 43 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Ratingen, 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 Ratingen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Düsseldorf 8.7 kmS 43 m (141 ft) −3 m
Heiligenhaus 9.4 kmE 156 m (512 ft) +110 m
Erkrath 9.6 kmSE 61 m (200 ft) +15 m
Mettmann 10.6 kmSE 148 m (486 ft) +102 m
Meerbusch 11.6 kmSW 38 m (125 ft) −8 m

Where Ratingen is

Latitude 51.2964148, longitude 6.8401844. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ratingen elevation: 46 m (151 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 Ratingen'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 64 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.