Elevation of Sines, Alentejo, Portugal

Sines, Alentejo, Portugal is 22 m (72 ft) above sea level.

Sines's height from sea level is 22 metres, or 72 feet. GeoNames reads 40 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 92 m

Mean 9 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 92 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 28

among the towns of Alentejo, and 314th of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

16 km to the NE, at 87 m, 65 m higher.

Cross-section through Sines

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sines; the vertical scale is the same on both.

100-8WE25.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 89 m at 13 km east.
100-8NS25.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Sines, 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 Sines

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Santo André 16 kmNE 87 m (285 ft) +65 m
Santiago do Cacém 17.1 kmNE 202 m (663 ft) +180 m
Cercal 24.3 kmSE 153 m (502 ft) +131 m
Vila Nova de Milfontes 26.1 kmS 25 m (82 ft) +3 m
Grândola 37.4 kmNE 98 m (322 ft) +76 m

Where Sines is

Latitude 37.9513395, longitude -8.8758956. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sines elevation: 22 m (72 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 Sines'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 40 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.