Elevation of São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

São João de Meriti's height from sea level is 14 metres, or 46 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 19 m.

Ground within 5 km

6 m – 57 m

Mean 25 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 904th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

Nilópolis

4.3 km to the W, at 32 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through São João de Meriti

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 São João de Meriti; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 813 m at 14 km west to 6 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 29 m at 14 km north to 17 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around São João de Meriti, 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 São João de Meriti

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Nilópolis	4.3 km	W	32 m (105 ft)	+18 m
Belford Roxo	5.2 km	NW	27 m (89 ft)	+13 m
Duque de Caxias	6.4 km	E	15 m (49 ft)	+1 m
Nova Iguaçu	9.5 km	NW	69 m (226 ft)	+55 m
Rio de Janeiro	20.1 km	SE	8 m (26 ft)	−6 m

Peaks and passes near São João de Meriti

Pedra Branca, peak at 1,025 m (3,363 ft), 17.5 km to the SW — 1,011 m above the town.
Pico da Tijuca, peak at 1,021 m (3,350 ft), 18 km to the SE — 1,007 m above the town.
Bico do Papagaio, peak at 995 m (3,264 ft), 18.2 km to the SE — 981 m above the town.

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

Where São João de Meriti is

Latitude -22.8038095, longitude -43.3726548. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at São João de Meriti'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 14 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.