Elevation of Saitama, Japan

Saitama, Japan is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Saitama's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Omiya Ōmiya Urawa Yono さいたま.

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 20 m

Mean 11 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 18 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 58

among the towns of Saitama, and 587th of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

5.1 km to the SE, at 9 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Saitama

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Saitama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

55-6WE26 km
West to east: from 21 m at 13 km west to 5 m at 13 km east.
55-6NS26 km
North to south: from 13 m at 13 km north to 45 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Saitama, 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 Saitama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Warabi 5.1 kmSE 9 m (30 ft) −10 m
Toda 5.7 kmSE 8 m (26 ft) −11 m
Shiki 6.5 kmSW 10 m (33 ft) −9 m
Asaka 8.5 kmSW 34 m (112 ft) +15 m
Fujimi 8.7 kmW 20 m (66 ft) +1 m

Where Saitama is

Latitude 35.8617292, longitude 139.6454822. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Saitama elevation: 19 m (62 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 Saitama'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 14 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.