Elevation of Sintra, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Portugal
Sintra, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Portugal is 268 m (879 ft) above sea level.
Sintra's height from sea level is 268 metres, or 879 feet. GeoNames reads 197 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 193 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 187 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 377 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Sintra
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sintra; 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 Sintra
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algueirão-Mem Martins | 3.9 km | E | 180 m (591 ft) | −88 m |
| Rio de Mouro | 5.3 km | SE | 167 m (548 ft) | −101 m |
| Colares | 6.6 km | W | 75 m (246 ft) | −193 m |
| Alcabideche | 6.9 km | S | 132 m (433 ft) | −136 m |
| Pêro Pinheiro | 8.3 km | NE | 145 m (476 ft) | −123 m |
Peaks and passes near Sintra
- Monte da Lua, peak at 528 m (1,732 ft), 1.5 km to the S — 260 m above the town.
- Cruz Alta, peak at 528 m (1,732 ft), 2 km to the SW — 260 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Sintra is
Latitude 38.7984458, longitude -9.3881121. 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 Sintra'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 197 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.