Elevation of Liepāja, Latvia

Liepāja, Latvia is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Liepāja's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 14 m.

Also written: Libau Lipawa.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 8 m

Mean 2 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 8 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

70th of 77

among the towns of Latvia with a reading.

Nearest town

10 km to the E, at 23 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through Liepāja

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Liepāja; the vertical scale is the same on both.

37-23WE22.3 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 14 m at 11 km east.
37-23NS22.3 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Liepāja, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 47 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 Liepāja

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Grobiņa (Liepājas) 10 kmE 23 m (75 ft) +17 m
Durbe (Liepājas) 23.6 kmE 39 m (128 ft) +33 m
Priekule (Liepājas) 36.4 kmE 60 m (197 ft) +54 m

Where Liepāja is

Latitude 56.5113106, longitude 21.0111931. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Liepāja elevation: 6 m (20 ft) above sea level

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 Liepāja'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 6 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.