Elevation of Gjirokastër, Albania

Gjirokastër, Albania is 224 m (735 ft) above sea level.

Gjirokastër's height from sea level is 224 metres, or 735 feet. GeoNames reads 286 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 502 m.

Also written: Agyrocastro Argyrocastro Argirocastro Aryirokastro Arghirocastru Gjirokastra Gjinokastër Argyrokastron Gjinokastra Gjinokastrer Gjinokastre Gjirokastrë.

Ground within 5 km

183 m – 1,268 m

Mean 400 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 1,085 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 68

among the towns of Albania with a reading.

Nearest town

Libohovë

11.3 km to the SE, at 569 m, 345 m higher.

Cross-section through Gjirokastër

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gjirokastër; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 706 m at 13 km west to 364 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 862 m at 13 km north to 399 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Gjirokastër, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Gjirokastër

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Libohovë	11.3 km	SE	569 m (1,867 ft)	+345 m
Delvinë (Delvinë)	14.9 km	S	256 m (840 ft)	+32 m
Përmet (Përmet)	24.4 km	NE	239 m (784 ft)	+15 m
Këlcyrë (Përmet)	26.3 km	N	197 m (646 ft)	−27 m
Sarandë (Sarandë)	26.8 km	SW	7 m (23 ft)	−217 m

Peaks and passes near Gjirokastër

Maja e Dritës, peak at 2,482 m (8,143 ft), 24.6 km to the E — 2,258 m above the town.
Maja e Dhëmbelit, peak at 2,080 m (6,824 ft), 19.6 km to the NE — 1,856 m above the town.

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

Where Gjirokastër is

Latitude 40.0787509, longitude 20.148621. 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 Gjirokastër'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 286 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.