Elevation of Jōetsu, Niigata, Japan

Jōetsu, Niigata, Japan is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Jōetsu's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 10 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Joetsu 上越.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 197 m

Mean 28 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 197 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 23

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

Nearest town

Myoko

13.7 km to the S, at 62 m, 55 m higher.

Cross-section through Jōetsu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Jōetsu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 162 m at 13 km west to 34 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 97 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Jōetsu, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Jōetsu

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Myoko	13.7 km	S	62 m (203 ft)	+55 m
Iiyama (Nagano)	34.9 km	S	325 m (1,066 ft)	+318 m
Itoigawa	35.3 km	W	17 m (56 ft)	+10 m
Kashiwazaki	37.9 km	NE	10 m (33 ft)	+3 m

Where Jōetsu is

Latitude 37.1478477, longitude 138.2360802. 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 Jōetsu'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 10 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.