Elevation of Messina, Sicily, Italy

Messina, Sicily, Italy is 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

Messina's height from sea level is 28 metres, or 92 feet. GeoNames reads 29 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3 m.

Also written: Messine.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 475 m

Mean 104 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 475 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

66th of 83

among the towns of Sicily, and 755th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

Villa San Giovanni

7.6 km to the E, at 25 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Messina

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Messina; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 162 m at 13 km west to 177 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Messina, 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 Messina

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Villa San Giovanni (Calabria)	7.6 km	E	25 m (82 ft)	−3 m
Reggio di Calabria (Calabria)	12 km	SE	63 m (207 ft)	+35 m
Milazzo	27.7 km	W	13 m (43 ft)	−15 m
Barcellona	30.5 km	W	57 m (187 ft)	+29 m
Palmi (Calabria)	31.6 km	NE	255 m (837 ft)	+227 m

Peaks and passes near Messina

Monte Scuderi, peak at 1,253 m (4,111 ft), 19.6 km to the SW — 1,225 m above the town.

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

Where Messina is

Latitude 38.1923323, longitude 15.5555232. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Messina'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 29 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.