Elevation of Faleolo, North West Upolu, Samoa

Faleolo, North West Upolu, Samoa is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Faleolo's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 350 m

Mean 56 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 350 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 39

among the towns of North West Upolu, and 142nd of 202 in Samoa.

Nearest town

0 km to the N, at 8 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Faleolo

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 Faleolo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

250-19WE28.3 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 107 m at 14 km east.
250-19NS28.3 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Faleolo, 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 Faleolo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Fuailoloo (Rest of Upolu) 0 kmN 8 m (26 ft) same
Samea (Rest of Upolu) 1.3 kmW 25 m (82 ft) +17 m
Lalovi (Rest of Upolu) 3.2 kmSW 53 m (174 ft) +45 m
Satuimalufilufi 3.5 kmN 0 m (0 ft) −8 m
Satapuala 4.1 kmE 10 m (33 ft) +2 m

Peaks and passes near Faleolo

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

Where Faleolo is

Latitude -13.83045, longitude -172.0081099. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Faleolo elevation: 8 m (26 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 Faleolo'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 13 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.