Elevation of Baykalsk, Irkutsk, Russia

Baykalsk, Irkutsk, Russia is 523 m (1,716 ft) above sea level.

Baykalsk's height from sea level is 523 metres, or 1,716 feet. GeoNames reads 495 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 460 m.

Also written: Bajkalsk Байкальск.

Ground within 4 km

449 m – 1,300 m

Mean 635 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 851 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 20

among the towns of Irkutsk, and 41st of 994 in Russia.

Nearest town

33.8 km to the NW, at 457 m, 66 m lower.

Cross-section through Baykalsk

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Baykalsk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,812348WE23.3 km
West to east: from 602 m at 12 km west to 449 m at 12 km east.
1,812348NS23.3 km
North to south: from 449 m at 12 km north to 1,326 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Baykalsk, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 Baykalsk

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Slyudyanka 33.8 kmNW 457 m (1,499 ft) −66 m

Where Baykalsk is

Latitude 51.5091, longitude 104.1188. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Baykalsk elevation: 523 m (1,716 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 Baykalsk'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 495 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.