Elevation of Taranto, Apulia, Italy

Taranto, Apulia, Italy is 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.

Taranto's height from sea level is 11 metres, or 36 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 15 m.

Also written: Tarent Tarente.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 26 m

Mean 9 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 26 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

89th of 97

among the towns of Apulia, and 875th of 997 in Italy.

Nearest town

Statte

10.9 km to the N, at 128 m, 117 m higher.

Cross-section through Taranto

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 Taranto; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 49 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 267 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Taranto, 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 Taranto

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Statte	10.9 km	N	128 m (420 ft)	+117 m
San Giorgio Ionico	11.9 km	E	101 m (331 ft)	+90 m
Crispiano	15.1 km	N	239 m (784 ft)	+228 m
Massafra	16.9 km	NW	105 m (344 ft)	+94 m
Grottaglie	18.2 km	NE	143 m (469 ft)	+132 m

Where Taranto is

Latitude 40.4692383, longitude 17.2400088. 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 Taranto'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 13 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.