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Download geodata for Hamburg
Official open geodata for Hamburg — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1, DOP and bDOM — the same data as in the state geoportals, but uniformly processed and ready to download.
Processed by us
Ready-made files from this server — one click, one download, uniform nationwide in EPSG:25832.
🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
261,697 parcels, 382,477 buildings, 101,591 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | 1.06 GB |
| Parcels only | 376 MB |
| Building footprints only | 237 MB |
| Land use only | 452 MB |
Source: © Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, LGV · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
882 tiles of 1 km² each (1.92 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (882 tiles, JSON) | 1.92 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
1,141 tiles of 1 km² each (3.38 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,141 tiles, JSON) | 3.38 GB |
Directly from the state
There is no copy of these datasets here: the tables link per tile to the server of the responsible state agency.
✈️ DOP — Digital orthophotos: current aerial imagery directly from the state agencies
909 tiles, period 2017-03-01–2025-03-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (909 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (9)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2016 (876 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2017 (875 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2018 (874 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2019 (885 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2020 (874 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2021 (874 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2022 (890 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (868 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (868 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
1 tiles, period 2022-11-21–2022-11-21.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (1 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Figures & areas in Hamburg
Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Forest area | 4,241 ha |
| Buildings | 381,817 |
| Residential land | 16,914 ha |
| of which built-up | 21.8 % |
| Parcel size (median) | 738 m² |
“of which built-up” is the share of residential land covered by buildings — a measure of building density. The median tells how large a typical parcel is (historical partible inheritance makes parcels in the south-west much smaller than in the north-east).
Land use in Hamburg
What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the state area of 754 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 171 km² | 22.7 % |
| Residential land | 169 km² | 22.4 % |
| Industry & commerce | 72 km² | 9.5 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 64 km² | 8.5 % |
| Road transport | 64 km² | 8.5 % |
| Water bodies | 48 km² | 6.4 % |
| Forest | 42 km² | 5.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 23 km² | 3.0 % |
| Woodland | 20 km² | 2.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 16 km² | 2.1 % |
| Rail transport | 11 km² | 1.4 % |
| Air transport | 9 km² | 1.3 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 9 km² | 1.2 % |
| Cemetery | 8 km² | 1.1 % |
| Paths and tracks | 7 km² | 0.9 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 6 km² | 0.9 % |
| Squares | 229 ha | 0.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 43 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the state area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Hamburg
Calculated from the digital terrain model (DGM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).
| Metric | Elevation above sea level (NHN) |
|---|---|
| Minimum | -12.2 m |
| Mean | 16.1 m |
| Maximum | 126.7 m |
Districts in Hamburg
The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.
View parcels and buildings directly, from zoom level 16.
Extract-APICustom extracts and other formats via the API.
OGC API FeaturesStandards-compliant interface for GIS software.
Data as of: 2026-09-01.