Elevation of Magenta, Lombardy, Italy

Magenta, Lombardy, Italy is 140 m (459 ft) above sea level.

Magenta's height from sea level is 140 metres, or 459 feet. GeoNames reads 139 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 138 m.

Ground within 4 km

107 m – 161 m

Mean 138 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 54 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

96th of 152

among the towns of Lombardy, and 415th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the E, at 137 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Magenta

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Magenta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

22877WE24.5 km
West to east: from 143 m at 12 km west to 134 m at 12 km east.
22877NS24.5 km
North to south: from 217 m at 12 km north to 88 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Magenta, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 51 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 Magenta

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Corbetta 3.1 kmE 137 m (449 ft) −3 m
Sedriano 7.2 kmE 144 m (472 ft) +4 m
Busto Garolfo 8.6 kmN 181 m (594 ft) +41 m
Abbiategrasso 8.9 kmS 119 m (390 ft) −21 m
Bareggio 8.9 kmE 139 m (456 ft) −1 m

Where Magenta is

Latitude 45.4682315, longitude 8.8809736. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Magenta elevation: 140 m (459 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Magenta'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 139 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.