Elevation of Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal
Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal is 29 m (95 ft) above sea level.
Ponta do Sol's height from sea level is 29 metres, or 95 feet. GeoNames reads 76 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 5 km
Mean 220 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 1,041 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Ponta do Sol
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 Ponta do Sol; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Ponta do Sol
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ribeira Brava | 3.8 km | E | 58 m (190 ft) | +29 m |
| Campanário | 6.5 km | E | 85 m (279 ft) | +56 m |
| Câmara de Lobos | 12.5 km | E | 5 m (16 ft) | −24 m |
| Funchal | 18.9 km | E | 8 m (26 ft) | −21 m |
| Caniço | 25 km | E | 137 m (449 ft) | +108 m |
Peaks and passes near Ponta do Sol
- Pico Ruivo de Santana, peak at 1,862 m (6,109 ft), 17.5 km to the NE — 1,833 m above the town.
- Pico do Arieiro, peak at 1,818 m (5,965 ft), 16.5 km to the E — 1,789 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Ponta do Sol is
Latitude 32.6799341, longitude -17.1037304. 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 Ponta do Sol'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 76 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.