Elevation of Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany is 228 m (748 ft) above sea level.

Zweibrücken's height from sea level is 228 metres, or 748 feet. GeoNames reads 242 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 300 m.

Also written: Deux-Ponts.

Ground within 4 km

228 m – 354 m

Mean 292 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 126 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 33

among the towns of Rhineland-Palatinate, and 328th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Blieskastel

8.2 km to the W, at 267 m, 39 m higher.

Cross-section through Zweibrücken

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Zweibrücken; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 293 m at 12 km west to 277 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 254 m at 12 km north to 286 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Zweibrücken, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 50 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 Zweibrücken

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Blieskastel (Saarland)	8.2 km	W	267 m (876 ft)	+39 m
Homburg (Saarland)	9.1 km	N	243 m (797 ft)	+15 m
Bexbach (Saarland)	14.3 km	NW	259 m (850 ft)	+31 m
Neunkirchen (Saarland)	17.3 km	NW	269 m (883 ft)	+41 m
Pirmasens	17.8 km	E	396 m (1,299 ft)	+168 m

Peaks and passes near Zweibrücken

Höcherberg, peak at 518 m (1,699 ft), 18 km to the NW — 290 m above the town.
Hohelist, peak at 476 m (1,562 ft), 23.8 km to the SE — 248 m above the town.
Erlenkopf, peak at 472 m (1,549 ft), 24.3 km to the SE — 244 m above the town.

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

Where Zweibrücken is

Latitude 49.2491377, longitude 7.3655384. 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 Zweibrücken'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 242 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.