Elevation of Ploieşti, Prahova, Romania

Ploieşti, Prahova, Romania is 153 m (502 ft) above sea level.

Ploieşti's height from sea level is 153 metres, or 502 feet. GeoNames reads 161 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 165 m.

Also written: Ploesti.

Ground within 4 km

122 m – 186 m

Mean 153 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 64 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 57

among the towns of Prahova, and 603rd of 1,000 in Romania.

Nearest town

5.4 km to the NE, at 153 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Ploieşti

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ploieşti; the vertical scale is the same on both.

236101WE24.6 km
West to east: from 205 m at 12 km west to 122 m at 12 km east.
236101NS24.6 km
North to south: from 226 m at 12 km north to 111 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Ploieşti, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Ploieşti

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bucov 5.4 kmNE 153 m (502 ft) same
Blejoi 5.6 kmN 184 m (604 ft) +31 m
Bărcăneşti 6.5 kmS 125 m (410 ft) −28 m
Brazi 6.7 kmS 143 m (469 ft) −10 m
Berceni 7.3 kmE 127 m (417 ft) −26 m

Where Ploieşti is

Latitude 44.94, longitude 26.03. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ploieşti elevation: 153 m (502 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 Ploieşti'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 161 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.