Elevation of Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Richmond, Virginia, United States of America is 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.

Richmond's height from sea level is 38 metres, or 125 feet. GeoNames reads 68 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 59 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 70 m

Mean 44 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 70 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 25

among the towns of Virginia, and 698th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Tuckahoe

11.9 km to the NW, at 76 m, 38 m higher.

Cross-section through Richmond

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Richmond; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 104 m at 13 km west to 50 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 39 m at 13 km north to 34 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Richmond, 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 Richmond

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tuckahoe	11.9 km	NW	76 m (249 ft)	+38 m

Peaks and passes near Richmond

Shooters Hill, peak at 68 m (223 ft), 18.3 km to the W — 30 m above the town.
Sliding Hill, peak at 63 m (207 ft), 16.5 km to the N — 25 m above the town.
Gambles Hill, peak at 44 m (144 ft), 0.8 km to the SW — 6 m above the town.

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

Where Richmond is

Latitude 37.5407246, longitude -77.4360481. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/227_744,Richmond,Virginia,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_744.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Richmond elevation: 38 m (125 ft) above sea level"></a>

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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 Richmond'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 68 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.