Elevation of Vila Viçosa, Alentejo, Portugal

Vila Viçosa, Alentejo, Portugal is 388 m (1,273 ft) above sea level.

Vila Viçosa's height from sea level is 388 metres, or 1,273 feet. GeoNames reads 403 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

257 m – 471 m

Mean 362 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 214 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 28

among the towns of Alentejo, and 37th of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

4.6 km to the NW, at 408 m, 20 m higher.

Cross-section through Vila Viçosa

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 Vila Viçosa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

492197WE25.6 km
West to east: from 330 m at 13 km west to 218 m at 13 km east.
492197NS25.6 km
North to south: from 323 m at 13 km north to 227 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Vila Viçosa, 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 Vila Viçosa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Borba 4.6 kmNW 408 m (1,339 ft) +20 m
Estremoz 16.3 kmNW 398 m (1,306 ft) +10 m
Redondo 18.2 kmSW 297 m (974 ft) −91 m
Elvas 24.2 kmNE 297 m (974 ft) −91 m
Olivenza (Spain) 29.3 kmE 249 m (817 ft) −139 m

Where Vila Viçosa is

Latitude 38.7774034, longitude -7.4166874. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vila Viçosa elevation: 388 m (1,273 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 Vila Viçosa'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 403 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.