Elevation of Selm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Selm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 60 m (197 ft) above sea level.

Selm's height from sea level is 60 metres, or 197 feet. GeoNames reads 57 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 58 m to 111 m.

Ground within 4 km

46 m – 103 m

Mean 63 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 57 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

192nd of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 758th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8.2 km to the N, at 53 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Selm

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 Selm; the vertical scale is the same on both.

9838WE23.3 km
West to east: from 45 m at 12 km west to 76 m at 12 km east.
9838NS23.3 km
North to south: from 66 m at 12 km north to 91 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Selm, 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 Selm

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lüdinghausen 8.2 kmN 53 m (174 ft) −7 m
Waltrop 9.4 kmSW 71 m (233 ft) +11 m
Lünen 10.4 kmSE 54 m (177 ft) −6 m
Datteln 10.7 kmSW 53 m (174 ft) −7 m
Werne 11.8 kmE 62 m (203 ft) +2 m

Where Selm is

Latitude 51.6957181, longitude 7.467609. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Selm elevation: 60 m (197 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Selm'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 57 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.