Elevation of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 879 m (2,884 ft) above sea level.

Nova Friburgo's height from sea level is 879 metres, or 2,884 feet. GeoNames reads 858 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 840 m.

Ground within 5 km

879 m – 1,401 m

Mean 1,063 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 522 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 70th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

23.1 km to the SW, at 78 m, 801 m lower.

Cross-section through Nova Friburgo

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 Nova Friburgo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,558828WE27.7 km
West to east: from 1,048 m at 14 km west to 1,103 m at 14 km east.
1,558828NS27.7 km
North to south: from 1,093 m at 14 km north to 1,443 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Nova Friburgo, 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.

Towns near Nova Friburgo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cachoeiras de Macacu 23.1 kmSW 78 m (256 ft) −801 m
Casimiro de Abreu 40 kmSE 26 m (85 ft) −853 m

Where Nova Friburgo is

Latitude -22.2871356, longitude -42.5336979. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Nova Friburgo elevation: 879 m (2,884 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 Nova Friburgo'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 858 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.