Elevation of Beja, Alentejo, Portugal

Beja, Alentejo, Portugal is 251 m (823 ft) above sea level.

Beja's height from sea level is 251 metres, or 823 feet. GeoNames reads 286 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 243 m.

Ground within 5 km

173 m – 272 m

Mean 215 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 99 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 28

among the towns of Alentejo, and 68th of 378 in Portugal.

Nearest town

22 km to the W, at 131 m, 120 m lower.

Cross-section through Beja

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 Beja; the vertical scale is the same on both.

284120WE25.7 km
West to east: from 187 m at 13 km west to 143 m at 13 km east.
284120NS25.7 km
North to south: from 152 m at 13 km north to 166 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Beja, 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 Beja

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ferreira do Alentejo 22 kmW 131 m (430 ft) −120 m
Serpa 24.9 kmE 204 m (669 ft) −47 m
Aljustrel 30 kmSW 183 m (600 ft) −68 m
Moura 39.2 kmE 189 m (620 ft) −62 m
Castro Verde 39.5 kmSW 241 m (791 ft) −10 m

Where Beja is

Latitude 38.012992, longitude -7.8715405. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Beja elevation: 251 m (823 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 Beja'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 286 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.