Elevation of Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany

Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany is 237 m (778 ft) above sea level.

Saalfeld's height from sea level is 237 metres, or 778 feet. GeoNames reads 230 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 235 m.

Also written: Saalfeld Saale Saalfeld Saale.

Ground within 4 km

203 m – 582 m

Mean 323 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 379 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 26

among the towns of Thuringia, and 317th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8 km to the N, at 207 m, 30 m lower.

Cross-section through Saalfeld

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Saalfeld; the vertical scale is the same on both.

653154WE23.5 km
West to east: from 579 m at 12 km west to 367 m at 12 km east.
653154NS23.5 km
North to south: from 369 m at 12 km north to 562 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Saalfeld, 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 Saalfeld

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rudolstadt 8 kmN 207 m (679 ft) −30 m
Ilmenau 31.3 kmW 479 m (1,572 ft) +242 m
Jena 34.6 kmNE 154 m (505 ft) −83 m
Sonneberg 35 kmSW 416 m (1,365 ft) +179 m
Arnstadt 36.2 kmNW 275 m (902 ft) +38 m

Peaks and passes near Saalfeld

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

Where Saalfeld is

Latitude 50.6492736, longitude 11.3661502. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Saalfeld elevation: 237 m (778 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 Saalfeld'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.