Elevation of Vatican City, Vatican+City

Vatican City, Vatican+City is 41 m (135 ft) above sea level.

Vatican City's height from sea level is 41 metres, or 135 feet. GeoNames reads 61 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Holy See.

Ground within 4 km

18 m – 126 m

Mean 60 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 108 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 1

among the towns of Vatican City with a reading.

Nearest town

Rome

3.7 km to the E, at 45 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Vatican City

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vatican City; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 62 m at 13 km west to 30 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 84 m at 13 km north to 54 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Vatican City, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Vatican City

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rome (Italy)	3.7 km	E	45 m (148 ft)	+4 m
Ciampino (Italy)	16.6 km	SE	120 m (394 ft)	+79 m
Fonte Nuova (Italy)	17.1 km	NE	121 m (397 ft)	+80 m
Formello (Italy)	20 km	N	223 m (732 ft)	+182 m
Mentana (Italy)	21.1 km	NE	148 m (486 ft)	+107 m

Peaks and passes near Vatican City

Vatican Hill, hill at 75 m (246 ft), 0.3 km to the W — 34 m above the town.

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

Where Vatican City is

Latitude 41.902916, longitude 12.453389. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Vatican City'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 61 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.