Elevation of Laugar, Norðurland eystra, Iceland

Laugar, Norðurland eystra, Iceland is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Laugar's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 40 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

32 m – 363 m

Mean 166 m across the 7.2 km square centred on the town, 331 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 20

among the towns of Norðurland eystra, and 36th of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

22.4 km to the E, at 312 m, 259 m higher.

Cross-section through Laugar

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Laugar; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3984WE20.3 km
West to east: from 242 m at 10 km west to 148 m at 10 km east.
3984NS20.3 km
North to south: from 37 m at 10 km north to 286 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Laugar, 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 Laugar

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Reykjahlíð 22.4 kmE 312 m (1,024 ft) +259 m
Svalbarðseyri 33.8 kmW 1 m (3 ft) −52 m
Akureyri 34.3 kmW 18 m (59 ft) −35 m
Kristnes 35.8 kmW 36 m (118 ft) −17 m
Húsavík 36.7 kmN 42 m (138 ft) −11 m

Where Laugar is

Latitude 65.7176694, longitude -17.3643643. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Laugar elevation: 53 m (174 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 Laugar'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 40 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.