Elevation of Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands, Spain

Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands, Spain is 36 m (118 ft) above sea level.

Santa Cruz de la Palma's height from sea level is 36 metres, or 118 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 4 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 1,490 m

Mean 295 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 1,490 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

50th of 54

among the towns of Canary Islands, and 754th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

Breña Alta

3.8 km to the SW, at 346 m, 310 m higher.

Cross-section through Santa Cruz de la Palma

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Santa Cruz de la Palma; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,338 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 15 m at 14 km north to 2 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Santa Cruz de la Palma, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 57 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 Santa Cruz de la Palma

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Breña Alta	3.8 km	SW	346 m (1,135 ft)	+310 m
El Paso	11.7 km	W	667 m (2,188 ft)	+631 m
Los Llanos de Aridane	14.7 km	W	346 m (1,135 ft)	+310 m

Peaks and passes near Santa Cruz de la Palma

Roque de los Muchachos, peak at 2,426 m (7,959 ft), 14.2 km to the NW — 2,390 m above the town.
Cumbre Vieja, peak at 1,949 m (6,394 ft), 14.2 km to the SW — 1,913 m above the town.
Pico Birigoyo, peak at 1,806 m (5,925 ft), 11.5 km to the SW — 1,770 m above the town.

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

Where Santa Cruz de la Palma is

Latitude 28.6832638, longitude -17.7639631. 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 Santa Cruz de la Palma'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 18 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.