Elevation of Salaspils, Rīgas, Latvia

Salaspils, Rīgas, Latvia is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Salaspils's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Kirchholm.

Ground within 4 km

8 m – 37 m

Mean 19 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 29 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 7

among the towns of Rīgas, and 64th of 77 in Latvia.

Nearest town

8.6 km to the E, at 25 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Salaspils

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Salaspils; the vertical scale is the same on both.

54-7WE22.2 km
West to east: from 23 m at 11 km west to 24 m at 11 km east.
54-7NS22.2 km
North to south: from 5 m at 11 km north to 37 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Salaspils, 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 Salaspils

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ikšķile (Ogres) 8.6 kmE 25 m (82 ft) +6 m
Baldone 13 kmS 30 m (98 ft) +11 m
Baloži 14.9 kmW 18 m (59 ft) −1 m
Ogre (Ogres) 15.4 kmE 30 m (98 ft) +11 m
Rīga (Rīga) 18.5 kmNW 4 m (13 ft) −15 m

Where Salaspils is

Latitude 56.8610816, longitude 24.3660383. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Salaspils 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 Salaspils'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 21 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.