Elevation of Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain is 35 m (115 ft) above sea level.

Bilbao's height from sea level is 35 metres, or 115 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 19 m.

Also written: Bilbo.

Ground within 4 km

10 m – 597 m

Mean 151 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 587 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 54

among the towns of Basque Country, and 760th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

Basauri

4.9 km to the SE, at 82 m, 47 m higher.

Cross-section through Bilbao

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bilbao; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 374 m at 12 km west to 85 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 41 m at 12 km north to 198 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Bilbao, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 52 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 Bilbao

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Basauri	4.9 km	SE	82 m (269 ft)	+47 m
Erandio	5.9 km	N	6 m (20 ft)	−29 m
Arrigorriaga	6.2 km	SE	92 m (302 ft)	+57 m
Galdakao	6.9 km	SE	54 m (177 ft)	+19 m
Barakaldo	7.1 km	NW	24 m (79 ft)	−11 m

Peaks and passes near Bilbao

Ganekogorta, peak at 998 m (3,274 ft), 7.9 km to the SW — 963 m above the town.
Eretza, peak at 887 m (2,910 ft), 10.9 km to the W — 852 m above the town.
Alen, peak at 804 m (2,638 ft), 23.2 km to the W — 769 m above the town.

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

Where Bilbao is

Latitude 43.2569629, longitude -2.9234409. 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 Bilbao'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 20 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.