Elevation of Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Santander, Cantabria, Spain is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Santander's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 1 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 15 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 60 m

Mean 10 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 60 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 17

among the towns of Cantabria, and 850th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

6.7 km to the S, at 9 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Santander

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Santander; the vertical scale is the same on both.

369-28WE24.8 km
West to east: from 55 m at 12 km west to 18 m at 12 km east.
369-28NS24.8 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 133 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Santander, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Santander

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Astillero 6.7 kmS 9 m (30 ft) −10 m
Santa Cruz de Bezana 8.1 kmW 43 m (141 ft) +24 m
Camargo 8.6 kmSW 40 m (131 ft) +21 m
Medio Cudeyo 11.5 kmSE 68 m (223 ft) +49 m
Piélagos 14.6 kmSW 30 m (98 ft) +11 m

Where Santander is

Latitude 43.4609602, longitude -3.8079336. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Santander elevation: 19 m (62 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 Santander'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 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.