Elevation of Chhukha, Bhutan

Chhukha, Bhutan is 1,537 m (5,043 ft) above sea level.

Chhukha's height from sea level is 1,537 metres, or 5,043 feet. GeoNames reads 1,565 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,414 m – 3,318 m

Mean 2,323 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 1,904 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 6

among the towns of Chhukha, and 24th of 54 in Bhutan.

Nearest town

7.4 km to the SW, at 3,206 m, 1,669 m higher.

Cross-section through Chhukha

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chhukha; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,8191,012WE27.2 km
West to east: from 1,950 m at 14 km west to 3,264 m at 14 km east.
3,8191,012NS27.2 km
North to south: from 2,560 m at 14 km north to 1,552 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Chhukha, 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 Chhukha

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dala 7.4 kmSW 3,206 m (10,518 ft) +1,669 m
Tsimalakha 10.3 kmNW 2,669 m (8,757 ft) +1,132 m
Tsimasham 10.9 kmS 2,574 m (8,445 ft) +1,037 m
Gedu 15.3 kmS 2,068 m (6,785 ft) +531 m
Phuentsholing 28.3 kmSW 248 m (814 ft) −1,289 m

Where Chhukha is

Latitude 27.0522919, longitude 89.5756987. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chhukha elevation: 1,537 m (5,043 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 Chhukha'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 1,565 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.