Elevation of Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America is 261 m (856 ft) above sea level.

Anchorage's height from sea level is 261 metres, or 856 feet.

Ground within 4 km

196 m – 1,752 m

Mean 962 m across the 7.6 km square centred on the town, 1,556 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

246th of 1,000

among the towns of United States of America with a reading.

Cross-section through Anchorage

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Anchorage; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,00383WE21.3 km
West to east: from 1,078 m at 11 km west to 1,426 m at 11 km east.
2,00383NS21.3 km
North to south: from 658 m at 11 km north to 1,099 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Anchorage, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 45 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.

Peaks and passes near Anchorage

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

Where Anchorage is

Latitude 61.18, longitude -149.19. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Anchorage elevation: 261 m (856 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 Anchorage'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.