Elevation of Machico, Madeira, Portugal

Machico, Madeira, Portugal is 47 m (154 ft) above sea level.

Machico's height from sea level is 47 metres, or 154 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 122 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 691 m

Mean 140 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 691 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 10

among the towns of Madeira, and 258th of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the SW, at 18 m, 29 m lower.

Cross-section through Machico

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 Machico; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,468-109WE26.5 km
West to east: from 1,359 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
1,468-109NS26.5 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Machico, 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 Machico

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Santa Cruz 3.7 kmSW 18 m (59 ft) −29 m
Caniço 10.3 kmSW 137 m (449 ft) +90 m
Funchal 15 kmSW 8 m (26 ft) −39 m
Câmara de Lobos 21 kmW 5 m (16 ft) −42 m
Campanário 25.9 kmW 85 m (279 ft) +38 m

Peaks and passes near Machico

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

Where Machico is

Latitude 32.7158351, longitude -16.7666274. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Machico elevation: 47 m (154 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 Machico'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.