They are located immediately south of Waldenburg, not far and west of Schwäbisch Hall, north and northwest of Michelfeld, a few kilometres northeast of Mainhardt and roughly east of Pfedelbach.

Among the summit of the Waldenburg Hills are the following – with their heights in metres (m) above sea level (NHN):[1] The two most important watercourses in the Waldenburg Hills are the Bibers, which flows south-southeast through the eastern part of the wooded countryside and finally empties into the upper Kocher, after passing through Michelfeld and Rosengarten, and the Ohrn, which runs along the edge of the Mainhardt Forest and flows north-northwest through Öhringen into the lower Kocher.

Artificial embankments, now functionless on the level terrain, for example on the Oberen Weide east of Waldenburg-Obersteinbach, bear witness to older lakes that were abandoned at some point.

[2] East of Michelfeld-Wagrain there is on the slopes a small wachsender Bach ("growing stream") with sinter formations between a field track and a hedge.

The gently tilted, wooded plateau of the Waldenburg Hills, which is crossed by the valleys of the aforementioned streams, consists of beds of the Middle Keuper.