Elevation of Riesa, Saxony, Germany

Riesa, Saxony, Germany is 104 m (341 ft) above sea level.

Riesa's height from sea level is 104 metres, or 341 feet. GeoNames reads 111 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 109 m.

Ground within 4 km

90 m – 157 m

Mean 108 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 67 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 47

among the towns of Saxony, and 593rd of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Oschatz

11.3 km to the W, at 136 m, 32 m higher.

Cross-section through Riesa

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 Riesa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 124 m at 12 km west to 125 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 91 m at 12 km north to 179 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Riesa, 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 Riesa

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Oschatz	11.3 km	W	136 m (446 ft)	+32 m
Großenhain	18.5 km	E	121 m (397 ft)	+17 m
Meißen	23.1 km	SE	107 m (351 ft)	+3 m
Döbeln	23.5 km	SW	175 m (574 ft)	+71 m
Coswig	29.5 km	SE	110 m (361 ft)	+6 m

Peaks and passes near Riesa

Collmberg, hill at 312 m (1,024 ft), 17.9 km to the W — 208 m above the town.
Eicherdthöhe, hill at 271 m (889 ft), 22.9 km to the SW — 167 m above the town.
Schleinitzhöhe, hill at 256 m (840 ft), 16 km to the S — 152 m above the town.

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

Where Riesa is

Latitude 51.3117871, longitude 13.2677004. 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 Riesa'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 111 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.