Elevation of Þorlákshöfn, Suðurland, Iceland

Þorlákshöfn, Suðurland, Iceland is 0 m (0 ft) above sea level.

Þorlákshöfn's height from sea level is 0 metres, or 0 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 28 m

Mean 6 m across the 7.4 km square centred on the town, 28 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 18

among the towns of Suðurland, and 93rd of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

10.8 km to the E, at 7 m, 7 m higher.

Cross-section through Þorlákshöfn

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 Þorlákshöfn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

447-34WE20.7 km
West to east: from 35 m at 10 km west to 0 m at 10 km east.
447-34NS20.7 km
North to south: from 413 m at 10 km north to 0 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Þorlákshöfn, 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 Þorlákshöfn

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Eyrarbakki 10.8 kmE 7 m (23 ft) +7 m
Stokkseyri 15.6 kmE 6 m (20 ft) +6 m
Hveragerði 18.6 kmNE 67 m (220 ft) +67 m
Selfoss 20.2 kmNE 24 m (79 ft) +24 m
Laugarbakki (Norðurland vestra) 23.1 kmNE 19 m (62 ft) +19 m

Where Þorlákshöfn is

Latitude 63.85, longitude -21.3666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Þorlákshöfn elevation: 0 m (0 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 Þorlákshöfn'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 6 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.