Elevation of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Rio de Janeiro's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 31 m.

Also written: Rio.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 535 m

Mean 54 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 535 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

44th of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 945th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

Niterói

11.1 km to the E, at 41 m, 33 m higher.

Cross-section through Rio de Janeiro

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rio de Janeiro; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 255 m at 14 km west to 59 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Rio de Janeiro, 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 Rio de Janeiro

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Niterói	11.1 km	E	41 m (135 ft)	+33 m
Duque de Caxias	16.8 km	NW	15 m (49 ft)	+7 m
São Gonçalo	18 km	NE	35 m (115 ft)	+27 m
São João de Meriti	20.1 km	NW	14 m (46 ft)	+6 m
Nilópolis	23.5 km	NW	32 m (105 ft)	+24 m

Peaks and passes near Rio de Janeiro

Pico da Tijuca, peak at 1,021 m (3,350 ft), 8.9 km to the SW — 1,013 m above the town.
Bico do Papagaio, peak at 995 m (3,264 ft), 10.8 km to the SW — 987 m above the town.
Morro da Cocanha, peak at 976 m (3,202 ft), 11.1 km to the SW — 968 m above the town.

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

Where Rio de Janeiro is

Latitude -22.9035393, longitude -43.2095869. 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 Rio de Janeiro'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 12 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.