Elevation of Valka, Valkas, Latvia

Valka, Valkas, Latvia is 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.

Valka's height from sea level is 56 metres, or 184 feet. GeoNames reads 53 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 50 m.

Also written: Walk Valga.

Ground within 4 km

45 m – 95 m

Mean 66 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 50 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 4

among the towns of Valkas, and 43rd of 77 in Latvia.

Nearest town

0.9 km to the NE, at 64 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Valka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Valka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

12745WE22 km
West to east: from 53 m at 11 km west to 72 m at 11 km east.
12745NS22 km
North to south: from 98 m at 11 km north to 69 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Valka, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 46 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 Valka

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Paju (Estonia) 0.9 kmNE 64 m (210 ft) +8 m
Valga (Estonia) 1.4 kmE 62 m (203 ft) +6 m
Kaagjärve (Estonia) 9.2 kmE 64 m (210 ft) +8 m
Sooru (Estonia) 10.3 kmNE 50 m (164 ft) −6 m
Piiri (Estonia) 12.7 kmN 71 m (233 ft) +15 m

Where Valka is

Latitude 57.777004, longitude 26.0241839. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Valka elevation: 56 m (184 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 Valka'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 53 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.