Elevation of Zittau, Saxony, Germany

Zittau, Saxony, Germany is 262 m (860 ft) above sea level.

Zittau's height from sea level is 262 metres, or 860 feet. GeoNames reads 253 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 242 m.

Also written: Žitawa Hirschfelde.

Ground within 4 km

229 m – 385 m

Mean 282 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 156 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 47

among the towns of Saxony, and 281st of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Hrádek nad Nisou

5.8 km to the SE, at 262 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Zittau

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 Zittau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 330 m at 12 km west to 175 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 268 m at 12 km north to 396 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Zittau, 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 Zittau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Hrádek nad Nisou (Czech Republic)	5.8 km	SE	262 m (860 ft)	same
Bogatynia (Poland)	10.8 km	E	251 m (823 ft)	−11 m
Varnsdorf (Czech Republic)	12.9 km	W	334 m (1,096 ft)	+72 m
Chrastava (Czech Republic)	14.8 km	SE	316 m (1,037 ft)	+54 m
Jablonné v Podještědí (Czech Republic)	15.3 km	S	316 m (1,037 ft)	+54 m

Peaks and passes near Zittau

Ještěd, peak at 1,012 m (3,320 ft), 22.6 km to the SE — 750 m above the town.
Černý vrch [Světlá pod Ještědem], hill at 950 m (3,117 ft), 23.2 km to the SE — 688 m above the town.
Černý kopec [Liberec-Horní Hanychov], hill at 887 m (2,910 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 625 m above the town.
Stožecké sedlo, pass at 602 m (1,975 ft), 16 km to the SW.

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

Where Zittau is

Latitude 50.8999681, longitude 14.8029971. 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 Zittau'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 253 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.