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

178 m – 324 m

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

3rd of 10

among the towns of Alabama, and 386th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

15.2 km to the W, at 212 m, 21 m higher.

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.

501149WE26.2 km
West to east: from 211 m at 13 km west to 214 m at 13 km east.
501149NS26.2 km
North to south: from 230 m at 13 km north to 174 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Huntsville, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Huntsville

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Madison 15.2 kmW 212 m (696 ft) +21 m
Decatur 38.9 kmW 179 m (587 ft) −12 m

Peaks and passes near Huntsville

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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Huntsville elevation: 191 m (627 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 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.