Elevation of Saint-Ghislain, Hainaut, Belgium

Saint-Ghislain, Hainaut, Belgium is 27 m (89 ft) above sea level.

Saint-Ghislain's height from sea level is 27 metres, or 89 feet. GeoNames reads 27 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 27 m.

Ground within 4 km

21 m – 102 m

Mean 45 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 81 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

62nd of 69

among the towns of Hainaut, and 367th of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

Boussu

2.5 km to the SW, at 35 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Saint-Ghislain

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Saint-Ghislain; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 18 m at 12 km west to 33 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 55 m at 12 km north to 133 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Saint-Ghislain, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 49 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 Saint-Ghislain

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Boussu	2.5 km	SW	35 m (115 ft)	+8 m
Quaregnon	3.4 km	E	36 m (118 ft)	+9 m
Colfontaine	5.9 km	S	85 m (279 ft)	+58 m
Dour	6.4 km	SW	92 m (302 ft)	+65 m
Frameries	8 km	SE	94 m (308 ft)	+67 m

Where Saint-Ghislain is

Latitude 50.4491086, longitude 3.8183757. 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 Saint-Ghislain'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 27 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.