Elevation of Rila, Kjustendil, Bulgaria

Rila, Kjustendil, Bulgaria is 568 m (1,864 ft) above sea level.

Rila's height from sea level is 568 metres, or 1,864 feet. GeoNames reads 579 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2,188 m.

Also written: Рила.

Ground within 4 km

435 m – 1,589 m

Mean 830 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 1,154 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 20

among the towns of Kjustendil, and 158th of 998 in Bulgaria.

Nearest town

Kocherinovo

7.7 km to the SW, at 447 m, 121 m lower.

Cross-section through Rila

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rila; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 410 m at 13 km west to 1,128 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 569 m at 13 km north to 586 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Rila, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Rila

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kocherinovo	7.7 km	SW	447 m (1,467 ft)	−121 m
Boboshevo	11.2 km	W	409 m (1,342 ft)	−159 m
Dzherman	11.5 km	N	510 m (1,673 ft)	−58 m
Blagoevgrad (Blagoevgrad)	12.1 km	S	389 m (1,276 ft)	−179 m
Bistritsa	12.9 km	N	763 m (2,503 ft)	+195 m

Peaks and passes near Rila

Golyam Kupen, peak at 2,731 m (8,960 ft), 22.4 km to the E — 2,163 m above the town.
Malyovitsa, peak at 2,729 m (8,953 ft), 7.7 km to the SE — 2,161 m above the town.
Orlovets, peak at 2,686 m (8,812 ft), 21 km to the E — 2,118 m above the town.

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

Where Rila is

Latitude 42.1272707, longitude 23.1337455. 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 Rila'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 579 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.