Elevation of Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Champaign, Illinois, United States of America is 227 m (745 ft) above sea level.

Champaign's height from sea level is 227 metres, or 745 feet. GeoNames reads 228 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 225 m.

Ground within 5 km

214 m – 241 m

Mean 227 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 27 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 42

among the towns of Illinois, and 307th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the E, at 221 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Champaign

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Champaign; the vertical scale is the same on both.

256195WE25.4 km
West to east: from 220 m at 13 km west to 210 m at 13 km east.
256195NS25.4 km
North to south: from 231 m at 13 km north to 219 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Champaign, 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 Champaign

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Urbana 3.1 kmE 221 m (725 ft) −6 m

Peaks and passes near Champaign

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Champaign is

Latitude 40.1164204, longitude -88.2433829. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Champaign elevation: 227 m (745 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Champaign'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 228 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.