Elevation of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America is 249 m (817 ft) above sea level.
Minneapolis's height from sea level is 249 metres, or 817 feet. GeoNames reads 262 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 264 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 260 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 57 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Minnesota, and 265th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Minneapolis
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Minneapolis; 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 Minneapolis
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Louis Park | 8.6 km | W | 273 m (896 ft) | +24 m |
| Edina | 12.3 km | SW | 272 m (892 ft) | +23 m |
| Saint Paul | 12.4 km | E | 261 m (856 ft) | +12 m |
| Brooklyn Park | 14.2 km | NW | 264 m (866 ft) | +15 m |
| Plymouth | 15.2 km | W | 291 m (955 ft) | +42 m |
Peaks and passes near Minneapolis
- Mount Gilboa, peak at 311 m (1,020 ft), 17.8 km to the SW — 62 m above the town.
- Sunset Hill, peak at 290 m (951 ft), 4.7 km to the NW — 41 m above the town.
- Pilot Knob, peak at 288 m (945 ft), 14 km to the SE — 39 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Minneapolis is
Latitude 44.983334, longitude -93.26667. 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 Minneapolis'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 262 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.