Elevation of Vavau, Rest of Upolu, Samoa

Vavau, Rest of Upolu, Samoa is 73 m (240 ft) above sea level.

Vavau's height from sea level is 73 metres, or 240 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 496 m

Mean 113 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 496 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 88

among the towns of Rest of Upolu, and 48th of 202 in Samoa.

Nearest town

Sapoe

2.6 km to the NE, at 239 m, 166 m higher.

Cross-section through Vavau

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vavau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 6 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 90 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Vavau, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Vavau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sapoe	2.6 km	NE	239 m (784 ft)	+166 m
Aufaga	3.2 km	E	47 m (154 ft)	−26 m
Matatufu	3.4 km	W	40 m (131 ft)	−33 m
Siuniu	4.5 km	N	435 m (1,427 ft)	+362 m
Piu	4.6 km	N	291 m (955 ft)	+218 m

Peaks and passes near Vavau

Mount Fito, peak at 1,028 m (3,373 ft), 17.3 km to the NW — 955 m above the town.
Mount Le Pu’e, peak at 885 m (2,904 ft), 24.5 km to the NW — 812 m above the town.
Mount Tiatala, peak at 484 m (1,588 ft), 5.8 km to the NE — 411 m above the town.

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

Where Vavau is

Latitude -14.0405328, longitude -171.5517582. 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 Vavau'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 21 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.