Elevation of Hvolsvöllur, Suðurland, Iceland

Hvolsvöllur, Suðurland, Iceland is 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.

Hvolsvöllur's height from sea level is 31 metres, or 102 feet. GeoNames reads 46 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Hvolsvellir.

Ground within 4 km

18 m – 83 m

Mean 32 m across the 7.4 km square centred on the town, 65 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 18

among the towns of Suðurland, and 46th of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

12.4 km to the NW, at 35 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Hvolsvöllur

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 Hvolsvöllur; the vertical scale is the same on both.

206-2WE20.7 km
West to east: from 13 m at 10 km west to 191 m at 10 km east.
206-2NS20.7 km
North to south: from 84 m at 10 km north to 13 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Hvolsvöllur, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 44 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 Hvolsvöllur

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hella 12.4 kmNW 35 m (115 ft) +4 m
Vestmannaeyjar 34.8 kmS 12 m (39 ft) −19 m

Where Hvolsvöllur is

Latitude 63.75, longitude -20.2333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hvolsvöllur elevation: 31 m (102 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 Hvolsvöllur'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 46 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.