Elevation of Þórshöfn, Norðurland eystra, Iceland

Þórshöfn, Norðurland eystra, Iceland is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Þórshöfn's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 122 m

Mean 20 m across the 7.2 km square centred on the town, 122 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 20

among the towns of Norðurland eystra, and 62nd of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

30 km to the SE, at 0 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Þórshöfn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Þórshöfn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

234-18WE20.2 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 52 m at 10 km east.
234-18NS20.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 216 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 42 km around Þórshöfn, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 42 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 Þórshöfn

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bakkafjörður 30 kmSE 0 m (0 ft) −15 m
Raufarhöfn 39.1 kmNW 9 m (30 ft) −6 m

Where Þórshöfn is

Latitude 66.2, longitude -15.3333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Þórshöfn elevation: 15 m (49 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Þórshöfn'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.