Elevation of Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan is 50 m (164 ft) above sea level.

Otaru's height from sea level is 50 metres, or 164 feet. GeoNames reads 30 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: 小樽.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 485 m

Mean 150 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 485 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 40

among the towns of Hokkaido, and 330th of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Yoichi

17.1 km to the W, at 13 m, 37 m lower.

Cross-section through Otaru

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Otaru; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 112 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 680 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Otaru, 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 Otaru

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Yoichi	17.1 km	W	13 m (43 ft)	−37 m
Ishikari	26.1 km	E	7 m (23 ft)	−43 m
Sapporo	32.5 km	SE	33 m (108 ft)	−17 m

Where Otaru is

Latitude 43.1907173, longitude 140.9946621. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Otaru'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 30 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.