Elevation of Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan

Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan is 104 m (341 ft) above sea level.

Ōtsu's height from sea level is 104 metres, or 341 feet. GeoNames reads 131 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 131 m.

Also written: Otsu 大津.

Ground within 5 km

42 m – 693 m

Mean 206 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 651 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 16

among the towns of Shiga, and 172nd of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Kyōto

7.9 km to the W, at 46 m, 58 m lower.

Cross-section through Ōtsu

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 Ōtsu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 50 m at 13 km west to 101 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 398 m at 13 km north to 299 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Ōtsu, 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 Ōtsu

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kyōto (Kyōto)	7.9 km	W	46 m (151 ft)	−58 m
Kusatsu	9.6 km	E	98 m (322 ft)	−6 m
Rittō	13.1 km	E	109 m (358 ft)	+5 m
Moriyama	13.5 km	E	98 m (322 ft)	−6 m
Uji (Kyōto)	15.7 km	S	34 m (112 ft)	−70 m

Peaks and passes near Ōtsu

Atago-yama, peak at 924 m (3,031 ft), 20.9 km to the W — 820 m above the town.
Hiei-zan, peak at 848 m (2,782 ft), 5.3 km to the NW — 744 m above the town.
Kurama-yama, peak at 584 m (1,916 ft), 13.6 km to the NW — 480 m above the town.

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

Where Ōtsu is

Latitude 35.0178929, longitude 135.8546074. 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 Ōtsu'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 131 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.