Elevation of Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan

Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

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

Also written: 室蘭.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 106 m

Mean 11 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 106 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 40

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

Nearest town

15.4 km to the NE, at 5 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Muroran

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Muroran; the vertical scale is the same on both.

616-46WE25 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
616-46NS25 km
North to south: from 570 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Muroran, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Muroran

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Noboribetsu 15.4 kmNE 5 m (16 ft) −3 m
Date 19.6 kmNW 6 m (20 ft) −2 m

Where Muroran is

Latitude 42.3152306, longitude 140.9737991. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Muroran elevation: 8 m (26 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 Muroran'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 8 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.