Elevation of Garðabær, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland

Garðabær, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland is 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.

Garðabær's height from sea level is 52 metres, or 171 feet. GeoNames reads 41 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

3 m – 149 m

Mean 57 m across the 7.3 km square centred on the town, 146 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 8

among the towns of Höfuðborgarsvæði, and 37th of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

2.9 km to the SW, at 26 m, 26 m lower.

Cross-section through Garðabær

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 Garðabær; the vertical scale is the same on both.

436-33WE20.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 82 m at 10 km east.
436-33NS20.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 403 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Garðabær, 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 Garðabær

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hafnarfjörður 2.9 kmSW 26 m (85 ft) −26 m
Kópavogur 3.7 kmN 17 m (56 ft) −35 m
Reykjavík 6.3 kmN 6 m (20 ft) −46 m
Álftanes 7.1 kmW 0 m (0 ft) −52 m
Seltjarnarnes 10.2 kmNW 1 m (3 ft) −51 m

Peaks and passes near Garðabær

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

Where Garðabær is

Latitude 64.078804, longitude -21.8909088. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Garðabær elevation: 52 m (171 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 Garðabær'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 41 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.