Elevation of Skopje, Macedonia

Skopje, Macedonia is 275 m (902 ft) above sea level.

Skopje's height from sea level is 275 metres, or 902 feet. GeoNames reads 247 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 251 m.

Also written: Üsküp Üsküb Shkup Scopia Скопје.

Ground within 4 km

231 m – 826 m

Mean 293 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 595 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 10

among the towns of Skopje, and 88th of 111 in Macedonia.

Nearest town

Studeničani

0 km to the N, at 275 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Skopje

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Skopje; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 269 m at 13 km west to 239 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 880 m at 13 km north to 518 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Skopje, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Skopje

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Studeničani	0 km	N	275 m (902 ft)	same
Sopište	5.1 km	S	416 m (1,365 ft)	+141 m
Aračinovo	6.1 km	E	228 m (748 ft)	−47 m
Čučer	6.3 km	NW	319 m (1,047 ft)	+44 m
Saraj	10.5 km	W	269 m (883 ft)	−6 m

Peaks and passes near Skopje

Dolni Pepeljak, peak at 1,814 m (5,951 ft), 23.4 km to the S — 1,539 m above the town.
Bajrak, peak at 1,527 m (5,010 ft), 20.7 km to the S — 1,252 m above the town.
Rasa, peak at 1,369 m (4,491 ft), 18 km to the W — 1,094 m above the town.

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

Where Skopje is

Latitude 42.003812, longitude 21.452246. 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 Skopje'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 247 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.