Elevation of Lima, Peru

Lima, Peru is 95 m (312 ft) above sea level.

Lima's height from sea level is 95 metres, or 312 feet. Wikidata records 154 m.

Also written: Callao.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 198 m

Mean 83 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 198 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

799th of 929

among the towns of Peru with a reading.

Nearest town

San Rafael

3 km to the NW, at 96 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Lima

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lima; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 384 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 195 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Lima, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 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 Lima

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
San Rafael (San Martín)	3 km	NW	96 m (315 ft)	+1 m
San Luis (Lima Provincias)	5.8 km	E	184 m (604 ft)	+89 m
Huacrapuquio (Junín)	6.5 km	N	103 m (338 ft)	+8 m
Pardo Miguel (San Martín)	6.7 km	N	113 m (371 ft)	+18 m
Los Morochucos (Ayacucho)	7.1 km	SE	97 m (318 ft)	+2 m

Peaks and passes near Lima

Cerro Mirador, peak at 806 m (2,644 ft), 17.7 km to the N — 711 m above the town.
Cerro San Gerónimo, peak at 756 m (2,480 ft), 11.3 km to the N — 661 m above the town.
Cerro El Morado, peak at 713 m (2,339 ft), 14.6 km to the N — 618 m above the town.

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

Where Lima is

Latitude -12.093084, longitude -77.046491. 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 Lima'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.