Elevation of Palatine, Illinois, United States of America
Palatine, Illinois, United States of America is 232 m (761 ft) above sea level.
Palatine's height from sea level is 232 metres, or 761 feet. GeoNames reads 227 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 226 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 231 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Illinois, and 298th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Palatine
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Palatine; 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 Palatine
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Heights | 5.1 km | SE | 216 m (709 ft) | −16 m |
| Buffalo Grove | 8.6 km | NE | 211 m (692 ft) | −21 m |
| Hoffman Estates | 9 km | SW | 246 m (807 ft) | +14 m |
| Mount Prospect | 9.4 km | SE | 206 m (676 ft) | −26 m |
| Schaumburg | 9.5 km | SW | 242 m (794 ft) | +10 m |
Where Palatine is
Latitude 42.1103041, longitude -88.03424. 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 Palatine'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 227 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.