Elevation of Álftanes, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland

Álftanes, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland is 0 m (0 ft) above sea level.

Álftanes's height from sea level is 0 metres, or 0 feet.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 19 m

Mean 1 m across the 7.3 km square centred on the town, 19 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 8

among the towns of Höfuðborgarsvæði, and 93rd of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

5.6 km to the SE, at 26 m, 26 m higher.

Cross-section through Álftanes

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Álftanes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

135-10WE20.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 31 m at 10 km east.
135-10NS20.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 125 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Álftanes, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 43 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 Álftanes

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hafnarfjörður 5.6 kmSE 26 m (85 ft) +26 m
Kópavogur 6.1 kmE 17 m (56 ft) +17 m
Seltjarnarnes 6.2 kmN 1 m (3 ft) +1 m
Garðabær 7.1 kmE 52 m (171 ft) +52 m
Reykjavík 7.6 kmNE 6 m (20 ft) +6 m

Peaks and passes near Álftanes

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

Where Álftanes is

Latitude 64.1005798, longitude -22.0290209. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Álftanes elevation: 0 m (0 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 Álftanes'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.