Elevation of Lào Cai, Đông Bắc Bộ, Vietnam

Lào Cai, Đông Bắc Bộ, Vietnam is 96 m (315 ft) above sea level.

Lào Cai's height from sea level is 96 metres, or 315 feet. GeoNames reads 86 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Lao Cai.

Ground within 5 km

81 m – 352 m

Mean 158 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 271 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 13

among the towns of Đông Bắc Bộ, and 12th of 68 in Vietnam.

Cross-section through Lào Cai

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lào Cai; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,637-19WE27.7 km
West to east: from 1,522 m at 14 km west to 139 m at 14 km east.
1,637-19NS27.7 km
North to south: from 393 m at 14 km north to 562 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Lào Cai, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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.

Where Lào Cai is

Latitude 22.5, longitude 103.96. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lào Cai elevation: 96 m (315 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 Lào Cai'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 86 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.