Elevation of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil is 27 m (89 ft) above sea level.

Porto Alegre's height from sea level is 27 metres, or 89 feet. GeoNames reads 46 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 79 m

Mean 14 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 79 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

55th of 74

among the towns of Rio Grande do Sul, and 835th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

Canoas

13 km to the N, at 20 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Porto Alegre

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Porto Alegre; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 5 m at 13 km west to 58 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 7 m at 13 km north to 1 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Porto Alegre, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Alegre

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Canoas	13 km	N	20 m (66 ft)	−7 m
Guaíba	13.6 km	SW	15 m (49 ft)	−12 m
Alvorada	14.8 km	E	24 m (79 ft)	−3 m
Cachoeirinha	15.6 km	NE	18 m (59 ft)	−9 m
Esteio	19.1 km	N	8 m (26 ft)	−19 m

Peaks and passes near Porto Alegre

Morro da Polícia, hill at 286 m (938 ft), 7.3 km to the SE — 259 m above the town.
Morro da Pedra Redonda, hill at 281 m (922 ft), 9.4 km to the SE — 254 m above the town.
Morro Teresópolis, hill at 260 m (853 ft), 8.1 km to the S — 233 m above the town.

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

Where Porto Alegre is

Latitude -30.0277041, longitude -51.2287346. 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 Alegre'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 46 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.