Elevation of Kyōto, Japan

Kyōto, Japan is 46 m (151 ft) above sea level.

Kyōto's height from sea level is 46 metres, or 151 feet. GeoNames reads 50 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Kyoto 京都.

Ground within 5 km

19 m – 384 m

Mean 88 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 365 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 15

among the towns of Kyōto, and 340th of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Ōtsu

7.9 km to the E, at 104 m, 58 m higher.

Cross-section through Kyōto

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 Kyōto; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 290 m at 13 km west to 81 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 593 m at 13 km north to 13 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Kyōto, 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 Kyōto

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ōtsu (Shiga)	7.9 km	E	104 m (341 ft)	+58 m
Mukō	9.4 km	SW	39 m (128 ft)	−7 m
Nagaokakyō	11.5 km	SW	26 m (85 ft)	−20 m
Uji	14.4 km	S	34 m (112 ft)	−12 m
Yawata	16.1 km	S	36 m (118 ft)	−10 m

Peaks and passes near Kyōto

Atago-yama, peak at 924 m (3,031 ft), 13.7 km to the NW — 878 m above the town.
Hiei-zan, peak at 848 m (2,782 ft), 8 km to the NE — 802 m above the town.
Kurama-yama, peak at 584 m (1,916 ft), 11.7 km to the N — 538 m above the town.

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

Where Kyōto is

Latitude 35.0116363, longitude 135.7680294. 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 Kyōto'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 50 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.