Elevation of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan

Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Shiraoi's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 5 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Shirawoi 白老.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 100 m

Mean 20 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 100 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

34th of 40

among the towns of Hokkaido, and 849th of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Tomakomai

22.4 km to the NE, at 9 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through Shiraoi

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

West to east: from 118 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 710 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Shiraoi, 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 Shiraoi

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tomakomai	22.4 km	NE	9 m (30 ft)	+3 m
Noboribetsu	25.6 km	SW	5 m (16 ft)	−1 m
Chitose	38.5 km	NE	15 m (49 ft)	+9 m

Peaks and passes near Shiraoi

Fuppushi-dake, peak at 1,103 m (3,619 ft), 18.4 km to the N — 1,097 m above the town.
Tarumae-san, peak at 1,041 m (3,415 ft), 14.9 km to the N — 1,035 m above the town.
Morappu-zan, peak at 507 m (1,663 ft), 22.4 km to the N — 501 m above the town.

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

Where Shiraoi is

Latitude 42.5512597, longitude 141.3559546. 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 Shiraoi'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 5 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.