Elevation of Vilanculos, Mozambique

Vilanculos, Mozambique is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Vilanculos's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 41 m

Mean 11 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 41 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 35

among the towns of Mozambique with a reading.

Cross-section through Vilanculos

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vilanculos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

49-11WE27.7 km
West to east: from 21 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
49-11NS27.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 30 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Vilanculos, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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.

Where Vilanculos is

Latitude -22, longitude 35.3166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vilanculos elevation: 20 m (66 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 Vilanculos'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 18 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.