Elevation of L'Escala, Catalonia, Spain

L'Escala, Catalonia, Spain is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

L'Escala's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 14 m.

Also written: Escala Escala (L').

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 128 m

Mean 16 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 128 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

123rd of 162

among the towns of Catalonia, and 821st of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

Torroella de Montgrí

9.1 km to the S, at 57 m, 34 m higher.

Cross-section through L'Escala

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is L'Escala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 97 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 3 m at 13 km north to 3 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around L'Escala, 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 L'Escala

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Torroella de Montgrí	9.1 km	S	57 m (187 ft)	+34 m
Castelló d'Empúries	15.6 km	N	14 m (46 ft)	−9 m
Roses	15.8 km	N	1 m (3 ft)	−22 m
La Bisbal d'Empordà	19.8 km	SW	38 m (125 ft)	+15 m
Figueres	21.2 km	NW	34 m (112 ft)	+11 m

Peaks and passes near L'Escala

Sant Salvador Saverdera, peak at 670 m (2,198 ft), 21.8 km to the N — 647 m above the town.
Puig de Queralbs, peak at 618 m (2,028 ft), 20.6 km to the N — 595 m above the town.
el Pení, peak at 608 m (1,995 ft), 19.7 km to the NE — 585 m above the town.

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

Where L'Escala is

Latitude 42.1247845, longitude 3.1323963. 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 L'Escala'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 15 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.