Elevation of Rietberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Rietberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 79 m (259 ft) above sea level.

Rietberg's height from sea level is 79 metres, or 259 feet. GeoNames reads 80 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 78 m.

Ground within 4 km

75 m – 86 m

Mean 79 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 11 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

145th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 671st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8.3 km to the NE, at 95 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Rietberg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rietberg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11453WE23.3 km
West to east: from 74 m at 12 km west to 94 m at 12 km east.
11453NS23.3 km
North to south: from 89 m at 12 km north to 87 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Rietberg, 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 Rietberg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Verl 8.3 kmNE 95 m (312 ft) +16 m
Rheda-Wiedenbrück 9.8 kmW 73 m (240 ft) −6 m
Gütersloh 10.2 kmN 79 m (259 ft) same
Delbrück 10.4 kmSE 97 m (318 ft) +18 m
Hövelhof 15.3 kmE 106 m (348 ft) +27 m

Peaks and passes near Rietberg

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

Where Rietberg is

Latitude 51.8167441, longitude 8.434179. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rietberg elevation: 79 m (259 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 Rietberg'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 80 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.