Elevation of Laugarás, Suðurland, Iceland

Laugarás, Suðurland, Iceland is 60 m (197 ft) above sea level.

Laugarás's height from sea level is 60 metres, or 197 feet. GeoNames reads 53 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

49 m – 363 m

Mean 76 m across the 7.3 km square centred on the town, 314 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 18

among the towns of Suðurland, and 32nd of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

8.7 km to the SW, at 87 m, 27 m higher.

Cross-section through Laugarás

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 Laugarás; the vertical scale is the same on both.

13942WE20.7 km
West to east: from 84 m at 10 km west to 83 m at 10 km east.
13942NS20.7 km
North to south: from 93 m at 10 km north to 49 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Laugarás, 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 Laugarás

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sólheimar 8.7 kmSW 87 m (285 ft) +27 m
Laugarvatn 16 kmNW 116 m (381 ft) +56 m
Flúðir 23.3 kmNE 346 m (1,135 ft) +286 m
Laugarbakki (Norðurland vestra) 28.5 kmSW 19 m (62 ft) −41 m
Selfoss 31.6 kmSW 24 m (79 ft) −36 m

Peaks and passes near Laugarás

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

Where Laugarás is

Latitude 64.1153874, longitude -20.4987184. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Laugarás elevation: 60 m (197 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 Laugarás'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 53 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.