 Niederstaufenbach lies in the Western Palatinate between the Walbersberg and the Krämel (mountains), on both sides of the Reichenbach in a broad hollow roughly a kilometre and a half up from where the Bosenbach empties into the Reichenbach.The village sits at an elevation of roughly 240 m above sea level between the villages of Oberstaufenbach and Friedelhausen.On the dale’s west side, the ground climbs up steeply to the Potzberg (hill) and to the neighbouring village of Föckelberg.