Elevation of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States of America
Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States of America is 1,601 m (5,253 ft) above sea level.
Rio Rancho's height from sea level is 1,601 metres, or 5,253 feet. GeoNames reads 1,606 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,610 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 1,591 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 189 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of New Mexico, and 20th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Rio Rancho
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rio Rancho; 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 Rio Rancho
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque | 16.5 km | S | 1,513 m (4,964 ft) | −88 m |
| South Valley | 24.8 km | S | 1,502 m (4,928 ft) | −99 m |
Peaks and passes near Rio Rancho
- North Sandia Peak, peak at 3,184 m (10,446 ft), 18.8 km to the E — 1,583 m above the town.
- South Sandia Peak, peak at 2,977 m (9,767 ft), 24.6 km to the SE — 1,376 m above the town.
- Capulin Peak, peak at 2,723 m (8,934 ft), 23.1 km to the E — 1,122 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Rio Rancho is
Latitude 35.2327544, longitude -106.6630437. 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 Rio Rancho'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 1,606 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.