Elevation of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany
Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany is 242 m (794 ft) above sea level.
Bamberg's height from sea level is 242 metres, or 794 feet. GeoNames reads 243 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 262 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 261 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 127 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Bamberg
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bamberg; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Bamberg
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forchheim | 23.1 km | SE | 272 m (892 ft) | +30 m |
| Lichtenfels | 29.5 km | NE | 272 m (892 ft) | +30 m |
| Erlangen | 35.2 km | S | 285 m (935 ft) | +43 m |
| Herzogenaurach | 36.8 km | S | 306 m (1,004 ft) | +64 m |
Peaks and passes near Bamberg
- nördlicher Geisberg, peak at 596 m (1,955 ft), 11.7 km to the E — 354 m above the town.
- Geisberg, peak at 585 m (1,919 ft), 11.5 km to the E — 343 m above the town.
- Altenberg, hill at 582 m (1,909 ft), 17.5 km to the E — 340 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Bamberg is
Latitude 49.8988135, longitude 10.9027636. 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 Bamberg'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 243 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.