Elevation of Sundern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Sundern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 260 m (853 ft) above sea level.

Sundern's height from sea level is 260 metres, or 853 feet. GeoNames reads 257 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 252 m.

Also written: Sundern (Sauerland).

Ground within 4 km

219 m – 435 m

Mean 339 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 216 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 284th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

9.7 km to the N, at 199 m, 61 m lower.

Cross-section through Sundern

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sundern; the vertical scale is the same on both.

652132WE23.4 km
West to east: from 276 m at 12 km west to 321 m at 12 km east.
652132NS23.4 km
North to south: from 273 m at 12 km north to 426 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Sundern, 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 Sundern

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Arnsberg 9.7 kmN 199 m (653 ft) −61 m
Plettenberg 15.9 kmSW 259 m (850 ft) −1 m
Finnentrop 17 kmS 276 m (906 ft) +16 m
Hemer 17.2 kmW 234 m (768 ft) −26 m
Werdohl 17.9 kmSW 212 m (696 ft) −48 m

Peaks and passes near Sundern

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

Where Sundern is

Latitude 51.3254213, longitude 8.0035148. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sundern elevation: 260 m (853 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 Sundern'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 257 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.