Elevation of Madrid, Spain

Madrid, Spain is 673 m (2,208 ft) above sea level.

Madrid's height from sea level is 673 metres, or 2,208 feet. GeoNames reads 665 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 663 m.

Ground within 5 km

573 m – 735 m

Mean 648 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 162 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 66

among the towns of Madrid, and 135th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

9.8 km to the W, at 688 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Madrid

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 Madrid; the vertical scale is the same on both.

765572WE25.3 km
West to east: from 718 m at 13 km west to 637 m at 13 km east.
765572NS25.3 km
North to south: from 751 m at 13 km north to 603 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Madrid, 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 Madrid

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pozuelo de Alarcón 9.8 kmW 688 m (2,257 ft) +15 m
Leganés 11.2 kmSW 669 m (2,195 ft) −4 m
Coslada 11.5 kmE 618 m (2,028 ft) −55 m
Getafe 12.7 kmS 629 m (2,064 ft) −44 m
Alcorcón 13.2 kmSW 712 m (2,336 ft) +39 m

Where Madrid is

Latitude 40.4166909, longitude -3.7003454. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Madrid elevation: 673 m (2,208 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 Madrid'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 665 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.