Elevation of L'Aquila, Abruzzes, Italy

L'Aquila, Abruzzes, Italy is 719 m (2,359 ft) above sea level.

L'Aquila's height from sea level is 719 metres, or 2,359 feet. GeoNames reads 728 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 714 m.

Also written: Aquila Aquila degli Abruzzi.

Ground within 4 km

587 m – 1,186 m

Mean 811 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 599 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 21

among the towns of Abruzzes, and 11th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

35.9 km to the S, at 686 m, 33 m lower.

Cross-section through L'Aquila

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is L'Aquila; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,002510WE25 km
West to east: from 707 m at 13 km west to 1,164 m at 13 km east.
2,002510NS25 km
North to south: from 1,575 m at 13 km north to 1,548 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around L'Aquila, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 L'Aquila

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Avezzano 35.9 kmS 686 m (2,251 ft) −33 m

Peaks and passes near L'Aquila

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where L'Aquila is

Latitude 42.3506978, longitude 13.3999338. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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L'Aquila elevation: 719 m (2,359 ft) above sea level

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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 L'Aquila'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 728 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.