Elevation of Elvas, Alentejo, Portugal

Elvas, Alentejo, Portugal is 297 m (974 ft) above sea level.

Elvas's height from sea level is 297 metres, or 974 feet. GeoNames reads 326 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

177 m – 379 m

Mean 263 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 202 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 28

among the towns of Alentejo, and 51st of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

7.8 km to the NE, at 218 m, 79 m lower.

Cross-section through Elvas

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Elvas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

495140WE25.6 km
West to east: from 418 m at 13 km west to 165 m at 13 km east.
495140NS25.6 km
North to south: from 259 m at 13 km north to 187 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Elvas, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 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 Elvas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Caia e São Pedro 7.8 kmNE 218 m (715 ft) −79 m
Badajoz (Spain) 16.7 kmE 187 m (614 ft) −110 m
Campo Maior 18.1 kmNE 276 m (906 ft) −21 m
Olivenza (Spain) 21.6 kmS 249 m (817 ft) −48 m
Vila Viçosa 24.2 kmSW 388 m (1,273 ft) +91 m

Where Elvas is

Latitude 38.8699464, longitude -7.1633167. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Elvas elevation: 297 m (974 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 Elvas'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 326 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.