Elevation of São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil

São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

São Luís's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 29 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 4 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 31 m

Mean 10 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 31 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 33

among the towns of Maranhão, and 891st of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

22.4 km to the E, at 28 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through São Luís

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is São Luís; the vertical scale is the same on both.

56-5WE28.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 26 m at 14 km east.
56-5NS28.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 25 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around São Luís, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Luís

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Paço do Lumiar 22.4 kmE 28 m (92 ft) +12 m
São José de Ribamar 27.4 kmE 1 m (3 ft) −15 m

Where São Luís is

Latitude -2.5307312, longitude -44.3068258. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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São Luís elevation: 16 m (52 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 São Luís'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 29 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.