Elevation of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 43 m (141 ft) above sea level.

Viersen's height from sea level is 43 metres, or 141 feet. GeoNames reads 44 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 40 m.

Ground within 4 km

34 m – 87 m

Mean 52 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

235th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 840th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

8.9 km to the S, at 55 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Viersen

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 Viersen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

8828WE23.4 km
West to east: from 51 m at 12 km west to 38 m at 12 km east.
8828NS23.4 km
North to south: from 33 m at 12 km north to 71 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Viersen, 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 Viersen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mönchengladbach 8.9 kmS 55 m (180 ft) +12 m
Grefrath 10 kmNW 37 m (121 ft) −6 m
Schwalmtal 10 kmW 61 m (200 ft) +18 m
Tönisvorst 10.1 kmNE 40 m (131 ft) −3 m
Willich 10.3 kmE 42 m (138 ft) −1 m

Where Viersen is

Latitude 51.2554987, longitude 6.3965235. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Viersen elevation: 43 m (141 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 Viersen'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 44 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.