Elevation of Balıkesir, Turkey

Balıkesir, Turkey is 160 m (525 ft) above sea level.

Balıkesir's height from sea level is 160 metres, or 525 feet. GeoNames reads 139 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 70 m.

Also written: Balikesir.

Ground within 5 km

100 m – 443 m

Mean 203 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 343 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 24

among the towns of Balıkesir, and 550th of 997 in Turkey.

Nearest town

23.5 km to the E, at 85 m, 75 m lower.

Cross-section through Balıkesir

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Balıkesir; the vertical scale is the same on both.

46965WE25.5 km
West to east: from 299 m at 13 km west to 95 m at 13 km east.
46965NS25.5 km
North to south: from 319 m at 13 km north to 148 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Balıkesir, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 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 Balıkesir

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kepsut 23.5 kmE 85 m (279 ft) −75 m
İvrindi 35 kmW 248 m (814 ft) +88 m
Savaştepe 35.3 kmSW 275 m (902 ft) +115 m
Bigadiç 35.6 kmSE 157 m (515 ft) −3 m
Susurluk 38.1 kmNE 42 m (138 ft) −118 m

Where Balıkesir is

Latitude 39.648369, longitude 27.88261. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Balıkesir elevation: 160 m (525 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 Balıkesir'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 139 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.