Elevation of Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Tampa, Florida, United States of America is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Tampa's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 41 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 30 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 26 m

Mean 12 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 26 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 85

among the towns of Florida, and 826th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

University

13 km to the N, at 23 m, 7 m higher.

Cross-section through Tampa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tampa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 22 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 23 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Tampa, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 57 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 Tampa

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
University	13 km	N	23 m (75 ft)	+7 m
Town 'n' Country	13.6 km	NW	9 m (30 ft)	−7 m
Riverview	15.9 km	SE	13 m (43 ft)	−3 m
Brandon	16.9 km	E	21 m (69 ft)	+5 m
Valrico	21.1 km	E	22 m (72 ft)	+6 m

Where Tampa is

Latitude 27.950575, longitude -82.4571776. 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_884,Tampa,Florida,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_884.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Tampa elevation: 16 m (52 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Tampa'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 41 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.