Elevation of Hekinan, Aichi, Japan

Hekinan, Aichi, Japan is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Hekinan's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 3 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: 碧南.

Ground within 5 km

-1 m – 22 m

Mean 4 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 23 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

34th of 54

among the towns of Aichi, and 821st of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

4.8 km to the N, at 12 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Hekinan

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hekinan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

53-8WE26.2 km
West to east: from 46 m at 13 km west to 8 m at 13 km east.
53-8NS26.2 km
North to south: from 3 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Hekinan, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Hekinan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Takahama 4.8 kmN 12 m (39 ft) +5 m
Handa 5.1 kmW 3 m (10 ft) −4 m
Nishio 6.7 kmE 5 m (16 ft) −2 m
Isshiki 7.9 kmSE 1 m (3 ft) −6 m
Taketoyo 8.1 kmSW 21 m (69 ft) +14 m

Where Hekinan is

Latitude 34.8848038, longitude 136.9933755. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hekinan elevation: 7 m (23 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 Hekinan'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 3 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.