Elevation of Kure, Hiroshima, Japan

Kure, Hiroshima, Japan is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Kure's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 102 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: 呉.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 602 m

Mean 141 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 602 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 19

among the towns of Hiroshima, and 789th of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Kumano

9.8 km to the N, at 228 m, 220 m higher.

Cross-section through Kure

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kure; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 19 m at 13 km west to 258 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 157 m at 13 km north to 9 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Kure, 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 Kure

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kumano	9.8 km	N	228 m (748 ft)	+220 m
Etajima	11.6 km	W	11 m (36 ft)	+3 m
Kaita	13.9 km	N	6 m (20 ft)	−2 m
Fuchū	16.8 km	N	8 m (26 ft)	same
Hiroshima	18.2 km	NW	10 m (33 ft)	+2 m

Peaks and passes near Kure

Noro San, peak at 839 m (2,753 ft), 7.9 km to the E — 831 m above the town.
Mont Misen, peak at 535 m (1,755 ft), 22.8 km to the W — 527 m above the town.

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

Where Kure is

Latitude 34.2492541, longitude 132.5658045. 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 Kure'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 102 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.