Elevation of Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America

Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America is 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

Alexandria's height from sea level is 14 metres, or 46 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 12 m to 12 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 73 m

Mean 22 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 73 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 25

among the towns of Virginia, and 846th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Arlington

9.8 km to the NW, at 86 m, 72 m higher.

Cross-section through Alexandria

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alexandria; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 76 m at 13 km west to 73 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 38 m at 13 km north to 45 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Alexandria, 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 Alexandria

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Arlington	9.8 km	NW	86 m (282 ft)	+72 m
Washington (District of Columbia)	10.1 km	N	16 m (52 ft)	+2 m
MacLean	18.3 km	NW	92 m (302 ft)	+78 m
Bethesda (Maryland)	20.4 km	N	110 m (361 ft)	+96 m
Silver Spring (Maryland)	20.7 km	N	104 m (341 ft)	+90 m

Peaks and passes near Alexandria

Gantt Hill, peak at 155 m (509 ft), 20.9 km to the NW — 141 m above the town.
Mount Daniel, peak at 144 m (472 ft), 15.6 km to the NW — 130 m above the town.
Minor Hill, peak at 140 m (459 ft), 14.6 km to the NW — 126 m above the town.

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

Where Alexandria is

Latitude 38.8048355, longitude -77.0469214. 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 Alexandria'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.