Elevation of Runcu, Gorj, Romania

Runcu, Gorj, Romania is 292 m (958 ft) above sea level.

Runcu's height from sea level is 292 metres, or 958 feet. GeoNames reads 282 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 289 m.

Also written: Runcur.

Ground within 4 km

233 m – 917 m

Mean 411 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 684 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 20

among the towns of Gorj, and 353rd of 1,000 in Romania.

Nearest town

Băleşti

12.1 km to the SE, at 192 m, 100 m lower.

Cross-section through Runcu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Runcu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 590 m at 12 km west to 324 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 1,019 m at 12 km north to 169 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Runcu, 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 Runcu

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Băleşti	12.1 km	SE	192 m (630 ft)	−100 m
Târgu Jiu	13.7 km	SE	205 m (673 ft)	−87 m
Drăguţeşti	17.1 km	SE	176 m (577 ft)	−116 m
Tismana	17.2 km	SW	223 m (732 ft)	−69 m
Bumbeşti-Jiu	19.6 km	E	316 m (1,037 ft)	+24 m

Peaks and passes near Runcu

Straja, peak at 1,440 m (4,724 ft), 22.3 km to the NE — 1,148 m above the town.
Ski resort Straja, Hunedoara, peak at 1,440 m (4,724 ft), 23.4 km to the N — 1,148 m above the town.
Trântorul, peak at 992 m (3,255 ft), 24.9 km to the NE — 700 m above the town.

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

Where Runcu is

Latitude 45.1180833, longitude 23.1461468. 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 Runcu'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 282 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.