Elevation of Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria
Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria is 553 m (1,814 ft) above sea level.
Sofia's height from sea level is 553 metres, or 1,814 feet. GeoNames reads 562 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 573 m to 595 m.
Also written: Sofija Sofya Sofiya София.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 558 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 119 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Sofia
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sofia; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Sofia
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofiya Kv.Ilientsi | 0 km | N | 553 m (1,814 ft) | same |
| Sofiya Kv.Benkovski | 4.7 km | N | 520 m (1,706 ft) | −33 m |
| Sofiya Kv.Vrazhdebna | 7.1 km | E | 526 m (1,726 ft) | −27 m |
| Sofiya Kv.Dragalevtsi | 7.7 km | S | 765 m (2,510 ft) | +212 m |
| Sofiya Kv.Sukhodol | 7.9 km | W | 630 m (2,067 ft) | +77 m |
Peaks and passes near Sofia
- Vitosha, peak at 2,290 m (7,513 ft), 14.7 km to the S — 1,737 m above the town.
- Golyam Rezen, peak at 2,277 m (7,470 ft), 14.9 km to the S — 1,724 m above the town.
- Cherni Vrah, peak at 2,270 m (7,448 ft), 15.3 km to the S — 1,717 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Sofia is
Latitude 42.6964917, longitude 23.3260106. 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 Sofia'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 562 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.