Elevation of Porto Novo, Ouémé, Benin

Porto Novo, Ouémé, Benin is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Porto Novo's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 38 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 38 m

Mean 15 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 38 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 37

among the towns of Benin with a reading.

Nearest town

Cotonou

24.9 km to the SW, at 8 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Porto Novo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Porto Novo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2 m at 14 km west to 7 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 37 m at 14 km north to 9 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Porto Novo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 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 Porto Novo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Cotonou (Littoral)	24.9 km	SW	8 m (26 ft)	−12 m
Sakété (Plateau)	27.2 km	N	77 m (253 ft)	+57 m
Abomey-Calavi (Atlantique)	28.7 km	W	20 m (66 ft)	same
Badagri (Nigeria)	32 km	E	5 m (16 ft)	−15 m
Ado Odo (Nigeria)	38.2 km	E	14 m (46 ft)	−6 m

Where Porto Novo is

Latitude 6.4973, longitude 2.6051. 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 Porto Novo'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 20 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.