Elevation of Modica, Sicily, Italy

Modica, Sicily, Italy is 362 m (1,188 ft) above sea level.

Modica's height from sea level is 362 metres, or 1,188 feet. GeoNames reads 322 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 296 m.

Ground within 5 km

197 m – 555 m

Mean 414 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 358 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 83

among the towns of Sicily, and 96th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

Ragusa

8 km to the N, at 473 m, 111 m higher.

Cross-section through Modica

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Modica; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 457 m at 13 km west to 333 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 506 m at 13 km north to 82 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Modica, 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 Modica

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ragusa	8 km	N	473 m (1,552 ft)	+111 m
Scicli	9.1 km	SW	163 m (535 ft)	−199 m
Ispica	15.4 km	SE	172 m (564 ft)	−190 m
Pozzallo	16.6 km	SE	17 m (56 ft)	−345 m
Comiso	16.9 km	NW	208 m (682 ft)	−154 m

Peaks and passes near Modica

Monte Scannalupi, peak at 781 m (2,562 ft), 15.1 km to the NW — 419 m above the town.
Mount Alveria, peak at 421 m (1,381 ft), 24.5 km to the E — 59 m above the town.

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

Where Modica is

Latitude 36.8589486, longitude 14.760884. 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 Modica'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 322 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.