Elevation of Luz, Algarve, Portugal

Luz, Algarve, Portugal is 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Luz's height from sea level is 4 metres, or 13 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 74 m

Mean 14 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 74 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 28

among the towns of Algarve, and 367th of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

Tavira

6.2 km to the NE, at 13 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Luz

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Luz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 83 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 190 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Luz, 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 Luz

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tavira	6.2 km	NE	13 m (43 ft)	+9 m
Moncarapacho	8.7 km	W	56 m (184 ft)	+52 m
Olhão	15 km	SW	0 m (0 ft)	−4 m
São Brás de Alportel	19.1 km	NW	250 m (820 ft)	+246 m
Faro	22.3 km	W	24 m (79 ft)	+20 m

Where Luz is

Latitude 37.08, longitude -7.69. 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 Luz'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 39 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.