Elevation of Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Chetumal's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 3 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 22 m

Mean 7 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 22 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 11

among the towns of Quintana Roo, and 936th of 995 in Mexico.

Nearest town

14.7 km to the SW, at 7 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through Chetumal

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chetumal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

40-21WE28 km
West to east: from 1 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
40-21NS28 km
North to south: from 10 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Chetumal, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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 Chetumal

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Corozal (Belize) 14.7 kmSW 7 m (23 ft) −5 m
Bacalar 21.6 kmNW 18 m (59 ft) +6 m

Where Chetumal is

Latitude 18.502871, longitude -88.303511. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chetumal elevation: 12 m (39 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 Chetumal'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 3 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.