Elevation of Catania, Sicily, Italy

Catania, Sicily, Italy is 25 m (82 ft) above sea level.

Catania's height from sea level is 25 metres, or 82 feet. GeoNames reads 40 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 7 m.

Also written: Catane.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 286 m

Mean 61 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 286 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

68th of 83

among the towns of Sicily, and 777th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

Gravina di Catania

7 km to the NW, at 357 m, 332 m higher.

Cross-section through Catania

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Catania; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 169 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 515 m at 13 km north to 4 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Catania, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Catania

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Gravina di Catania	7 km	NW	357 m (1,171 ft)	+332 m
Misterbianco	7.3 km	W	230 m (755 ft)	+205 m
Aci Castello	7.9 km	NE	30 m (98 ft)	+5 m
Tremestieri Etneo	8.3 km	N	410 m (1,345 ft)	+385 m
San Giovanni la Punta	8.4 km	N	351 m (1,152 ft)	+326 m

Where Catania is

Latitude 37.5024825, longitude 15.0878345. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Catania'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. GeoNames' reading of 40 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.