Elevation of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

Málaga, Andalusia, Spain is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Málaga's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 18 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 386 m

Mean 74 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 386 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

163rd of 200

among the towns of Andalusia, and 865th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

Rincón de la Victoria

12.9 km to the E, at 2 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Málaga

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Málaga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 30 m at 13 km west to 72 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 532 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Málaga, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Málaga

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rincón de la Victoria	12.9 km	E	2 m (7 ft)	−15 m
Torremolinos	13 km	SW	62 m (203 ft)	+45 m
Alhaurín de la Torre	13.2 km	SW	52 m (171 ft)	+35 m
Cártama	18.8 km	W	100 m (328 ft)	+83 m
Benalmádena	19.5 km	SW	228 m (748 ft)	+211 m

Peaks and passes near Málaga

Pico de Mijas, peak at 1,149 m (3,770 ft), 24.4 km to the SW — 1,132 m above the town.
Santipetri, peak at 796 m (2,612 ft), 19.4 km to the NW — 779 m above the town.
Monte de Gibralfaro, peak at 130 m (427 ft), 0.7 km to the NE — 113 m above the town.

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

Where Málaga is

Latitude 36.7196484, longitude -4.4200163. 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 Málaga'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 22 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.