Elevation of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain is 1,079 m (3,540 ft) above sea level.
San Lorenzo de El Escorial's height from sea level is 1,079 metres, or 3,540 feet. GeoNames reads 1,049 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,032 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 1,179 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 850 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through San Lorenzo de El Escorial
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 San Lorenzo de El Escorial; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 San Lorenzo de El Escorial
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Escorial | 1.8 km | SE | 915 m (3,002 ft) | −164 m |
| Guadarrama | 10.3 km | NE | 957 m (3,140 ft) | −122 m |
| Colmenarejo | 11.7 km | E | 861 m (2,825 ft) | −218 m |
| Valdemorillo | 12.2 km | SE | 842 m (2,762 ft) | −237 m |
| Galapagar | 12.4 km | E | 882 m (2,894 ft) | −197 m |
Peaks and passes near San Lorenzo de El Escorial
- La Mujer Muerta, peak at 2,197 m (7,208 ft), 23.9 km to the N — 1,118 m above the town.
- Abantos, peak at 1,753 m (5,751 ft), 2.8 km to the N — 674 m above the town.
- Puerto de Guadarrama, pass at 1,511 m (4,957 ft), 13.3 km to the N.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where San Lorenzo de El Escorial is
Latitude 40.5916674, longitude -4.1491229. 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 San Lorenzo de El Escorial'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 1,049 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.