Elevation of Suffolk, Virginia, United States of America

Suffolk, Virginia, United States of America is 22 m (72 ft) above sea level.

Suffolk's height from sea level is 22 metres, or 72 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 11 m.

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 28 m

Mean 19 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 26 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 25

among the towns of Virginia, and 784th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Chesapeake

25 km to the E, at 11 m, 11 m lower.

Cross-section through Suffolk

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Suffolk; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 29 m at 13 km west to 15 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 21 m at 13 km north to 21 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Suffolk, 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 Suffolk

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chesapeake	25 km	E	11 m (36 ft)	−11 m
Portsmouth	28.1 km	NE	0 m (0 ft)	−22 m
Norfolk	29.8 km	NE	7 m (23 ft)	−15 m
Hampton	39.7 km	NE	6 m (20 ft)	−16 m

Where Suffolk is

Latitude 36.7282054, longitude -76.5835621. 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_872,Suffolk,Virginia,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_872.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Suffolk elevation: 22 m (72 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 Suffolk'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 22 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.