Elevation of Olhão, Algarve, Portugal

Olhão, Algarve, Portugal is 0 m (0 ft) above sea level.

Olhão's height from sea level is 0 metres, or 0 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 69 m

Mean 14 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 69 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 28

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

Nearest town

7.6 km to the W, at 24 m, 24 m higher.

Cross-section through Olhão

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 Olhão; the vertical scale is the same on both.

289-22WE25.9 km
West to east: from 7 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
289-22NS25.9 km
North to south: from 238 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Olhão, 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 Olhão

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Faro 7.6 kmW 24 m (79 ft) +24 m
Montenegro 7.6 kmW 24 m (79 ft) +24 m
Moncarapacho 8.3 kmNE 56 m (184 ft) +56 m
Loulé 13.6 kmNW 57 m (187 ft) +57 m
Santa Bárbara de Nexe 13.9 kmNW 146 m (479 ft) +146 m

Where Olhão is

Latitude 37.0242788, longitude -7.8434218. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

Put this on your site

Olhão elevation: 0 m (0 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Olhão'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 11 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.