Terminal Forecast Reference Notebook for Rhein Main AB, Germany.

Rhein Main Air Base is located at latitude 50 degrees 02 minutes North and longitude 08 degrees 34 minutes East. The field elevation of Rhein Main Air Base is 365 feet. The base is located on a flat rise of terrain from the low ground of the Main River and Rhein River valleys, about six nautical miles east of Wiesbaden. The relatively flat Main River and Rhein River valleys extend twenty to forty miles west-southwest and southwest from the base. Rhein Main Air Base, surrounded on all sides by woods, is located on the left bank of the Main River in the north central edge of these valleys. Seven miles to the northwest of the base the Main River Valley is bounded by the Taunus Mountains which form a barrier oriented southwest to northeast. These mountains rise to elevations over 3000 feet MSL. To the south and southeast of the base the terrain rises slowly to the Odenwald Mountains with elevations from 1500 feet MSL to 2000 feet MSL.