Elevation of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy

Potenza, Basilicata, Italy is 773 m (2,536 ft) above sea level.

Potenza's height from sea level is 773 metres, or 2,536 feet. GeoNames reads 760 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 819 m.

Ground within 5 km

656 m – 1,056 m

Mean 815 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 400 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 11

among the towns of Basilicata, and 7th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

Avigliano

12.4 km to the NW, at 837 m, 64 m higher.

Cross-section through Potenza

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Potenza; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,020 m at 13 km west to 683 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 790 m at 13 km north to 1,001 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Potenza, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Potenza

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Avigliano	12.4 km	NW	837 m (2,746 ft)	+64 m
Sala Consilina (Campania)	32.3 km	SW	530 m (1,739 ft)	−243 m
Rionero in Vulture	34 km	N	667 m (2,188 ft)	−106 m
Venosa	36.2 km	N	416 m (1,365 ft)	−357 m

Peaks and passes near Potenza

Monte Pierfaone, peak at 1,737 m (5,699 ft), 15.3 km to the S — 964 m above the town.
Monte Arioso, peak at 1,709 m (5,607 ft), 16.5 km to the S — 936 m above the town.
Monte Calvelluzzo, peak at 1,699 m (5,574 ft), 23.4 km to the S — 926 m above the town.
Passo Croce dello Scrivano, pass at 1,143 m (3,750 ft), 8.7 km to the S.

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

Where Potenza is

Latitude 40.6372425, longitude 15.8022214. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Potenza'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 760 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.