Elevation of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Funchal's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 280 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 988 m

Mean 249 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 988 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 10

among the towns of Madeira, and 354th of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

Caniço

6.1 km to the E, at 137 m, 129 m higher.

Cross-section through Funchal

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Funchal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,145 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Funchal, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Funchal

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Caniço	6.1 km	E	137 m (449 ft)	+129 m
Câmara de Lobos	6.6 km	W	5 m (16 ft)	−3 m
Santa Cruz	11.8 km	NE	18 m (59 ft)	+10 m
Campanário	12.5 km	W	85 m (279 ft)	+77 m
Machico	15 km	NE	47 m (154 ft)	+39 m

Peaks and passes near Funchal

Pico Ruivo de Santana, peak at 1,862 m (6,109 ft), 12.9 km to the N — 1,854 m above the town.
Pico do Arieiro, peak at 1,818 m (5,965 ft), 8.2 km to the N — 1,810 m above the town.

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

Where Funchal is

Latitude 32.6472539, longitude -16.9050922. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Funchal'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 280 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.