Elevation of Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Detroit, Michigan, United States of America is 191 m (627 ft) above sea level.
Detroit's height from sea level is 191 metres, or 627 feet. GeoNames reads 192 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 183 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 186 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 26 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Michigan, and 386th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Detroit
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Detroit; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Detroit
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor (Canada) | 6.1 km | SE | 190 m (623 ft) | −1 m |
| Dearborn | 10.8 km | W | 181 m (594 ft) | −10 m |
| Warren | 18 km | N | 190 m (623 ft) | −1 m |
| Dearborn Heights | 18.7 km | W | 190 m (623 ft) | −1 m |
| Royal Oak | 19.4 km | NW | 204 m (669 ft) | +13 m |
Where Detroit is
Latitude 42.331427, longitude -83.0457538. 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 Detroit'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 192 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.