Elevation of Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America is 104 m (341 ft) above sea level.
Silver Spring's height from sea level is 104 metres, or 341 feet. GeoNames reads 106 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 104 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 87 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 94 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Maryland, and 551st of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Silver Spring
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 Silver Spring; 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 Silver Spring
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethesda | 6 km | W | 110 m (361 ft) | +6 m |
| Wheaton | 6 km | NW | 135 m (443 ft) | +31 m |
| North Bethesda | 10 km | NW | 117 m (384 ft) | +13 m |
| Washington (District of Columbia) | 10.7 km | S | 16 m (52 ft) | −88 m |
| Aspen Hill | 10.7 km | N | 104 m (341 ft) | same |
Peaks and passes near Silver Spring
- Hunting Hill, peak at 156 m (512 ft), 18.2 km to the NW — 52 m above the town.
- Gantt Hill, peak at 155 m (509 ft), 19.3 km to the W — 51 m above the town.
- Mount Daniel, peak at 144 m (472 ft), 17 km to the SW — 40 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Silver Spring is
Latitude 38.9906657, longitude -77.026088. 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 Silver Spring'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 106 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.