Elevation of Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain

Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain is 874 m (2,867 ft) above sea level.

Colmenar Viejo's height from sea level is 874 metres, or 2,867 feet. GeoNames reads 889 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 800 m.

Ground within 5 km

702 m – 1,042 m

Mean 853 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 340 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 66

among the towns of Madrid, and 25th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

Tres Cantos

8.1 km to the SE, at 745 m, 129 m lower.

Cross-section through Colmenar Viejo

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 Colmenar Viejo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,037 m at 13 km west to 679 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 962 m at 13 km north to 710 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Colmenar Viejo, 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 Colmenar Viejo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tres Cantos	8.1 km	SE	745 m (2,444 ft)	−129 m
Soto del Real	10.7 km	N	935 m (3,068 ft)	+61 m
Manzanares el Real	11.3 km	NW	925 m (3,035 ft)	+51 m
Hoyo de Manzanares	12.6 km	W	989 m (3,245 ft)	+115 m
San Agustín del Guadalix	12.9 km	E	654 m (2,146 ft)	−220 m

Peaks and passes near Colmenar Viejo

Bola del Mundo, peak at 2,252 m (7,388 ft), 22.8 km to the NW — 1,378 m above the town.
Cerro San Pedro, peak at 1,146 m (3,760 ft), 9.1 km to the NE — 272 m above the town.
Roca - La Foca, hill at 1,075 m (3,527 ft), 14.1 km to the NW — 201 m above the town.
Puerto de Navacerrada, pass at 1,858 m (6,096 ft), 24.7 km to the NW.

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

Where Colmenar Viejo is

Latitude 40.6589526, longitude -3.7660432. 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 Colmenar Viejo'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 889 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.