Elevation of Ortona, Abruzzes, Italy

Ortona, Abruzzes, Italy is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Ortona's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 74 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 72 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 156 m

Mean 41 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 156 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 21

among the towns of Abruzzes, and 645th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

12.1 km to the NW, at 23 m, 30 m lower.

Cross-section through Ortona

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

280-21WE25 km
West to east: from 53 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
280-21NS25 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 259 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Ortona, 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 Ortona

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Francavilla al Mare 12.1 kmNW 23 m (75 ft) −30 m
Lanciano 13.8 kmS 276 m (906 ft) +223 m
Chieti 19.6 kmW 279 m (915 ft) +226 m
Pescara 19.8 kmNW 7 m (23 ft) −46 m
Spoltore 24.2 kmNW 119 m (390 ft) +66 m

Where Ortona is

Latitude 42.356909, longitude 14.40521. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ortona elevation: 53 m (174 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 Ortona'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 74 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.