Elevation of Wetzlar, Hassia, Germany

Wetzlar, Hassia, Germany is 161 m (528 ft) above sea level.

Wetzlar's height from sea level is 161 metres, or 528 feet. GeoNames reads 169 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 156 m.

Ground within 4 km

147 m – 357 m

Mean 218 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 210 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 91

among the towns of Hassia, and 432nd of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Gießen

13.3 km to the E, at 164 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through Wetzlar

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 Wetzlar; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 278 m at 12 km west to 171 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 326 m at 12 km north to 275 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Wetzlar, 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 Wetzlar

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Gießen	13.3 km	E	164 m (538 ft)	+3 m
Pohlheim	15.7 km	E	211 m (692 ft)	+50 m
Butzbach	17.9 km	SE	205 m (673 ft)	+44 m
Herborn	19.8 km	NW	250 m (820 ft)	+89 m
Dillenburg	26.2 km	NW	253 m (830 ft)	+92 m

Peaks and passes near Wetzlar

Knoten, peak at 605 m (1,985 ft), 24.8 km to the W — 444 m above the town.
Schmittgrund, hill at 590 m (1,936 ft), 24.3 km to the N — 429 m above the town.
Hesselberg, peak at 518 m (1,699 ft), 18.3 km to the S — 357 m above the town.

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

Where Wetzlar is

Latitude 50.5589802, longitude 8.5081646. 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 Wetzlar'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 169 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.