Elevation of Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 290 m (951 ft) above sea level.
Siegen's height from sea level is 290 metres, or 951 feet. GeoNames reads 272 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 256 m to 267 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 321 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 200 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 244th of 1,000 in Germany.
Cross-section through Siegen
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 Siegen; 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 Siegen
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netphen | 7 km | NE | 304 m (997 ft) | +14 m |
| Wilnsdorf | 9.2 km | SE | 373 m (1,224 ft) | +83 m |
| Kreuztal | 9.7 km | N | 347 m (1,138 ft) | +57 m |
| Freudenberg | 10.3 km | W | 310 m (1,017 ft) | +20 m |
| Hilchenbach | 12.2 km | N | 405 m (1,329 ft) | +115 m |
Peaks and passes near Siegen
- Ebschloh, peak at 686 m (2,251 ft), 20 km to the NE — 396 m above the town.
- Oberste Henn, peak at 676 m (2,218 ft), 15.1 km to the NE — 386 m above the town.
- Stegskopf, peak at 654 m (2,146 ft), 20.5 km to the S — 364 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Siegen is
Latitude 50.8838492, longitude 8.0209591. 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 Siegen'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 272 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.