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Elevation of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain is 592 m (1,942 ft) above sea level.

Alcalá de Henares's height from sea level is 592 metres, or 1,942 feet. GeoNames reads 597 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 588 m.

Also written: Alkal'a al-Kal'a.

Ground within 5 km

580 m – 758 m

Mean 632 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 178 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

57th of 66

among the towns of Madrid, and 207th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

Camarma de Esteruelas

7.5 km to the N, at 637 m, 45 m higher.

Cross-section through Alcalá de Henares

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alcalá de Henares; the vertical scale is the same on both.

864563WE25.3 km
West to east: from 602 m at 13 km west to 837 m at 13 km east.
864563NS25.3 km
North to south: from 700 m at 13 km north to 760 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Alcalá de Henares, 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 Alcalá de Henares

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Camarma de Esteruelas 7.5 kmN 637 m (2,090 ft) +45 m
Villalbilla 7.8 kmSE 799 m (2,621 ft) +207 m
Torres de la Alameda 8.6 kmS 662 m (2,172 ft) +70 m
Meco 8.6 kmN 668 m (2,192 ft) +76 m
Torrejón de Ardoz 10.1 kmW 592 m (1,942 ft) same

Where Alcalá de Henares is

Latitude 40.481663, longitude -3.3641362. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Alcalá de Henares elevation: 592 m (1,942 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 Alcalá de Henares'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 597 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.