Elevation of Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium

Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium is 131 m (430 ft) above sea level.

Charleroi's height from sea level is 131 metres, or 430 feet. GeoNames reads 136 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Karelskoning.

Ground within 4 km

101 m – 202 m

Mean 144 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 101 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 69

among the towns of Hainaut, and 162nd of 571 in Belgium.

Nearest town

5.9 km to the SW, at 145 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Charleroi

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 Charleroi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

24487WE23.5 km
West to east: from 146 m at 12 km west to 148 m at 12 km east.
24487NS23.5 km
North to south: from 146 m at 12 km north to 187 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Charleroi, 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 Charleroi

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Montigny-le-Tilleul 5.9 kmSW 145 m (476 ft) +14 m
Châtelet 5.9 kmE 113 m (371 ft) −18 m
Farciennes 7.2 kmE 133 m (436 ft) +2 m
Courcelles 7.7 kmNW 149 m (489 ft) +18 m
Fontaine-l'Evêque 8.3 kmW 143 m (469 ft) +12 m

Where Charleroi is

Latitude 50.4108095, longitude 4.444643. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Charleroi elevation: 131 m (430 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 Charleroi'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 136 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.