Elevation of Hikone, Shiga, Japan

Hikone, Shiga, Japan is 91 m (299 ft) above sea level.

Hikone's height from sea level is 91 metres, or 299 feet. GeoNames reads 95 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: 彦根.

Ground within 5 km

81 m – 277 m

Mean 118 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 196 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 16

among the towns of Shiga, and 201st of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Nagahama

12 km to the N, at 92 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Hikone

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hikone; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 81 m at 13 km west to 718 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 85 m at 13 km north to 147 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Hikone, 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 Hikone

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Nagahama	12 km	N	92 m (302 ft)	+1 m
Notogawa	13.5 km	SW	91 m (299 ft)	same
Maibara	13.9 km	NE	138 m (453 ft)	+47 m
Higashiomi	18.6 km	S	131 m (430 ft)	+40 m
Ōmihachiman	21.9 km	SW	90 m (295 ft)	−1 m

Peaks and passes near Hikone

Ibuki-yama, peak at 1,377 m (4,518 ft), 20.8 km to the NE — 1,286 m above the town.
Ryōzen-zan, peak at 825 m (2,707 ft), 10.8 km to the E — 734 m above the town.

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

Where Hikone is

Latitude 35.274461, longitude 136.2596226. 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 Hikone'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 95 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.