Elevation of Bălan, Harghita, Romania

Bălan, Harghita, Romania is 933 m (3,061 ft) above sea level.

Bălan's height from sea level is 933 metres, or 3,061 feet. GeoNames reads 890 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Balánbánya Balanbanya.

Ground within 4 km

801 m – 1,635 m

Mean 1,043 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 834 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 22

among the towns of Harghita, and 2nd of 1,000 in Romania.

Nearest town

Sândominic

7.7 km to the S, at 781 m, 152 m lower.

Cross-section through Bălan

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bălan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 938 m at 12 km west to 1,045 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,228 m at 12 km north to 804 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Bălan, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 51 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 Bălan

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sândominic	7.7 km	S	781 m (2,562 ft)	−152 m
Cârţa	13.8 km	S	713 m (2,339 ft)	−220 m
Lunca de Jos	15.5 km	SE	837 m (2,746 ft)	−96 m
Dăneşti	15.5 km	S	707 m (2,320 ft)	−226 m
Gheorgheni	18.9 km	NW	800 m (2,625 ft)	−133 m

Peaks and passes near Bălan

Muntele Mic, peak at 1,589 m (5,213 ft), 22.7 km to the SW — 656 m above the town.
Porcul, peak at 1,503 m (4,931 ft), 23.2 km to the SW — 570 m above the town.
Poienii, peak at 1,384 m (4,541 ft), 17 km to the SW — 451 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Bălan is

Latitude 46.6497222, longitude 25.81. 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 Bălan'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 890 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.