Elevation of Federal Way, Washington, United States of America
Federal Way, Washington, United States of America is 140 m (459 ft) above sea level.
Federal Way's height from sea level is 140 metres, or 459 feet. GeoNames reads 142 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 157 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 101 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 149 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Washington, and 495th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Federal Way
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Federal Way; 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 Federal Way
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn | 6.6 km | E | 24 m (79 ft) | −116 m |
| Kent | 8.8 km | NE | 12 m (39 ft) | −128 m |
| Tacoma | 12.6 km | SW | 84 m (276 ft) | −56 m |
| Renton | 19.2 km | N | 26 m (85 ft) | −114 m |
| South Hill | 20.4 km | S | 161 m (528 ft) | +21 m |
Peaks and passes near Federal Way
- Cedar Mountain, peak at 265 m (869 ft), 20.7 km to the NE — 125 m above the town.
- Indian Hill, peak at 167 m (548 ft), 7.8 km to the W — 27 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Federal Way is
Latitude 47.3223221, longitude -122.3126222. 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 Federal Way'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 142 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.