Elevation of Sugar Land, Texas, United States of America

Sugar Land, Texas, United States of America is 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

Sugar Land's height from sea level is 28 metres, or 92 feet. GeoNames reads 32 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 30 m.

Ground within 5 km

23 m – 31 m

Mean 27 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 8 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

61st of 75

among the towns of Texas, and 744th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

9.4 km to the E, at 26 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Sugar Land

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sugar Land; the vertical scale is the same on both.

55-6WE26.9 km
West to east: from 28 m at 13 km west to 24 m at 13 km east.
55-6NS26.9 km
North to south: from 30 m at 13 km north to 19 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Sugar Land, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 56 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 Sugar Land

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Missouri City 9.4 kmE 26 m (85 ft) −2 m
Houston 30 kmNE 15 m (49 ft) −13 m
Pearland 34.3 kmE 19 m (62 ft) −9 m

Peaks and passes near Sugar Land

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

Where Sugar Land is

Latitude 29.6196787, longitude -95.6349463. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sugar Land elevation: 28 m (92 ft) above sea level

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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 Sugar Land'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 32 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.