Elevation of Alfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany

Alfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany is 118 m (387 ft) above sea level.

Alfeld's height from sea level is 118 metres, or 387 feet. GeoNames reads 91 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 145 m.

Also written: Alfeld (Leine).

Ground within 4 km

84 m – 356 m

Mean 180 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 272 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 121

among the towns of Lower Saxony, and 532nd of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

18.3 km to the S, at 117 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Alfeld

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alfeld; the vertical scale is the same on both.

36268WE23.2 km
West to east: from 190 m at 12 km west to 174 m at 12 km east.
36268NS23.2 km
North to south: from 222 m at 12 km north to 166 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Alfeld, 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 Alfeld

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Einbeck 18.3 kmS 117 m (384 ft) −1 m
Hildesheim 19.7 kmNE 94 m (308 ft) −24 m
Seesen 25.7 kmSE 225 m (738 ft) +107 m
Sarstedt 28.2 kmN 65 m (213 ft) −53 m
Holzminden 31.1 kmSW 106 m (348 ft) −12 m

Peaks and passes near Alfeld

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

Where Alfeld is

Latitude 51.9833333, longitude 9.8333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Alfeld elevation: 118 m (387 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 Alfeld'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 91 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.