Elevation of Wachtberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Wachtberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 246 m (807 ft) above sea level.

Wachtberg's height from sea level is 246 metres, or 807 feet. GeoNames reads 194 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 222 m.

Ground within 4 km

89 m – 267 m

Mean 199 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 178 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

40th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 304th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

6.9 km to the E, at 84 m, 162 m lower.

Cross-section through Wachtberg

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 Wachtberg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

43425WE23.5 km
West to east: from 172 m at 12 km west to 194 m at 12 km east.
43425NS23.5 km
North to south: from 62 m at 12 km north to 370 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Wachtberg, 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 Wachtberg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bad Honnef 6.9 kmE 84 m (276 ft) −162 m
Meckenheim 7.1 kmW 180 m (591 ft) −66 m
Königswinter 8.4 kmNE 70 m (230 ft) −176 m
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (Rhineland-Palatinate) 9.2 kmS 100 m (328 ft) −146 m
Remagen (Rhineland-Palatinate) 9.4 kmSE 83 m (272 ft) −163 m

Peaks and passes near Wachtberg

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

Where Wachtberg is

Latitude 50.6243, longitude 7.1328. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Wachtberg elevation: 246 m (807 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 Wachtberg'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 194 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.