Elevation of Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America is 191 m (627 ft) above sea level.
Huntsville's height from sea level is 191 metres, or 627 feet. GeoNames reads 200 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 193 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 213 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 146 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Alabama, and 386th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Huntsville
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Huntsville; 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 Huntsville
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison | 15.2 km | W | 212 m (696 ft) | +21 m |
| Decatur | 38.9 km | W | 179 m (587 ft) | −12 m |
Peaks and passes near Huntsville
- Potato Knob, peak at 510 m (1,673 ft), 23.3 km to the NE — 319 m above the town.
- Sharp Mountain, peak at 508 m (1,667 ft), 23.7 km to the E — 317 m above the town.
- Monte Sano Mountain, peak at 494 m (1,621 ft), 7 km to the E — 303 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Huntsville is
Latitude 34.7303688, longitude -86.5861037. 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 Huntsville'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 200 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.