Elevation of Rome, Lazio, Italy

Rome, Lazio, Italy is 45 m (148 ft) above sea level.

Rome's height from sea level is 45 metres, or 148 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 21 m.

Also written: Roma Rom.

Ground within 4 km

14 m – 78 m

Mean 42 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 64 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

53rd of 67

among the towns of Lazio, and 673rd of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

Vatican City

3.7 km to the W, at 41 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Rome

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rome; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 60 m at 13 km west to 52 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 51 m at 13 km north to 76 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Rome, 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 Rome

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Vatican City (Vatican City)	3.7 km	W	41 m (135 ft)	−4 m
Ciampino	13.2 km	SE	120 m (394 ft)	+75 m
Fonte Nuova	15.5 km	NE	121 m (397 ft)	+76 m
Frascati	18 km	SE	341 m (1,119 ft)	+296 m
Grottaferrata	18.3 km	SE	344 m (1,129 ft)	+299 m

Peaks and passes near Rome

Monte Cavo, peak at 950 m (3,117 ft), 23.1 km to the SE — 905 m above the town.
Vatican Hill, hill at 75 m (246 ft), 4 km to the W — 30 m above the town.

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

Where Rome is

Latitude 41.8905198, longitude 12.4942486. 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 Rome'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 52 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.