Elevation of Shètóu, Zhānghuà, Taiwan

Shètóu, Zhānghuà, Taiwan is 78 m (256 ft) above sea level.

Shètóu's height from sea level is 78 metres, or 256 feet. GeoNames reads 42 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 104 m.

Also written: Shetou 社頭.

Ground within 5 km

30 m – 418 m

Mean 163 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 388 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 26

among the towns of Zhānghuà, and 111th of 291 in Taiwan.

Nearest town

6.5 km to the W, at 33 m, 45 m lower.

Cross-section through Shètóu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Shètóu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

445-10WE27.5 km
West to east: from 22 m at 14 km west to 267 m at 14 km east.
445-10NS27.5 km
North to south: from 117 m at 14 km north to 80 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Shètóu, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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 Shètóu

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Yŏngjìng 6.5 kmW 33 m (108 ft) −45 m
Yuánlín 6.5 kmNW 30 m (98 ft) −48 m
Tiánzhōng 7 kmS 53 m (174 ft) −25 m
Nántóu (Nántóu) 7.6 kmE 86 m (282 ft) +8 m
Pŭxīn 8.1 kmNW 25 m (82 ft) −53 m

Where Shètóu is

Latitude 23.9117187, longitude 120.6084832. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Shètóu elevation: 78 m (256 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 Shètóu'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 42 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.