Elevation of Monte Gordo, Algarve, Portugal

Monte Gordo, Algarve, Portugal is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Monte Gordo's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 10 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 32 m

Mean 5 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 32 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 28

among the towns of Algarve, and 358th of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

3.3 km to the E, at 3 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Monte Gordo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Monte Gordo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

85-7WE25.8 km
West to east: from 78 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
85-7NS25.8 km
North to south: from 35 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Monte Gordo, 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 Monte Gordo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Castro Marim 3.3 kmE 3 m (10 ft) −4 m
Vila Real de Santo António 3.3 kmE 3 m (10 ft) −4 m
Ayamonte (Spain) 5 kmNE 1 m (3 ft) −6 m
Isla Cristina (Spain) 11.1 kmE 2 m (7 ft) −5 m
Tavira 18.9 kmW 13 m (43 ft) +6 m

Where Monte Gordo is

Latitude 37.1822909, longitude -7.4492107. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Monte Gordo elevation: 7 m (23 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 Monte Gordo'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 10 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.