Elevation of Hvammstangi, Norðurland vestra, Iceland

Hvammstangi, Norðurland vestra, Iceland is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

Hvammstangi's height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 33 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 467 m

Mean 95 m across the 7.2 km square centred on the town, 467 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 8

among the towns of Norðurland vestra, and 40th of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

Borðeyri

22.3 km to the S, at 3 m, 37 m lower.

Cross-section through Hvammstangi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hvammstangi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 123 m at 10 km west to 567 m at 10 km east.

North to south: from 91 m at 10 km north to 109 m at 10 km south.

Shaded relief of the 43 km around Hvammstangi, 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 Hvammstangi

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Borðeyri (Vestfirðir)	22.3 km	S	3 m (10 ft)	−37 m

Peaks and passes near Hvammstangi

Hellnafell, peak at 467 m (1,532 ft), 22.9 km to the NE — 427 m above the town.
Ósafell, peak at 421 m (1,381 ft), 24.6 km to the NE — 381 m above the town.

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

Where Hvammstangi is

Latitude 65.395859, longitude -20.939699. 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 Hvammstangi'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 33 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.