Elevation of Augusta, Sicily, Italy

Augusta, Sicily, Italy is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Augusta's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 15 m.

Also written: Agosta.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 67 m

Mean 13 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 67 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

81st of 83

among the towns of Sicily, and 906th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

9 km to the S, at 30 m, 22 m higher.

Cross-section through Augusta

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Augusta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

174-13WE25.8 km
West to east: from 161 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
174-13NS25.8 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 42 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Augusta, 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 Augusta

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Priolo Gargallo 9 kmS 30 m (98 ft) +22 m
Melilli 10.1 kmSW 273 m (896 ft) +265 m
Floridia 16.9 kmS 109 m (358 ft) +101 m
Carlentini 18.5 kmW 196 m (643 ft) +188 m
Syracuse 19.5 kmS 3 m (10 ft) −5 m

Where Augusta is

Latitude 37.2337469, longitude 15.2189972. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Augusta elevation: 8 m (26 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 Augusta'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 11 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.