Elevation of İstanbul, Turkey

İstanbul, Turkey is 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

İstanbul's height from sea level is 14 metres, or 46 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 100 m.

Also written: Istanbul Istambul Stenbol Kushta Konstandinoupolis Konstantinopel Poli Tsarigrad Carigrad.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 115 m

Mean 41 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 115 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 41

among the towns of İstanbul, and 912th of 997 in Turkey.

Nearest town

Yenidoğan

5.6 km to the SW, at 24 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through İstanbul

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is İstanbul; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 90 m at 13 km west to 170 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 98 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around İstanbul, 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 İstanbul

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Yenidoğan	5.6 km	SW	24 m (79 ft)	+10 m
Büyükçekmece	14.8 km	W	62 m (203 ft)	+48 m
Bahçeköy	18.6 km	N	192 m (630 ft)	+178 m
Çavuşbaşı	18.7 km	E	137 m (449 ft)	+123 m
Sarıgazi	18.8 km	E	143 m (469 ft)	+129 m

Where İstanbul is

Latitude 41.029242, longitude 28.951558. 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 İstanbul'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 39 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.