Elevation of Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Norfolk's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 10 m

Mean 5 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 10 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 25

among the towns of Virginia, and 945th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Portsmouth

2 km to the SW, at 0 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Norfolk

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Norfolk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 7 m at 13 km west to 8 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 5 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Norfolk, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Norfolk

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Portsmouth	2 km	SW	0 m (0 ft)	−7 m
Chesapeake	19.1 km	S	11 m (36 ft)	+4 m
Hampton	20.6 km	N	6 m (20 ft)	−1 m
Virginia Beach	25.1 km	SE	6 m (20 ft)	−1 m
Suffolk	29.8 km	SW	22 m (72 ft)	+15 m

Peaks and passes near Norfolk

White Hill, peak at 10 m (33 ft), 23.8 km to the E — 3 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Norfolk is

Latitude 36.8507689, longitude -76.2858726. 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 Norfolk'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 15 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.