Elevation of Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Chengdu, Sichuan, China is 502 m (1,647 ft) above sea level.

Chengdu's height from sea level is 502 metres, or 1,647 feet. GeoNames reads 499 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 500 m.

Also written: Chengtu.

Ground within 5 km

487 m – 508 m

Mean 499 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 21 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 33

among the towns of Sichuan, and 127th of 908 in China.

Nearest town

Huayang

16.4 km to the SW, at 496 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Chengdu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chengdu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 511 m at 13 km west to 495 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 508 m at 13 km north to 478 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Chengdu, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Chengdu

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Huayang	16.4 km	SW	496 m (1,627 ft)	−6 m
Guihu	20.7 km	NE	493 m (1,617 ft)	−9 m
Dawan	30.4 km	NE	475 m (1,558 ft)	−27 m
Tianpeng	35.2 km	N	577 m (1,893 ft)	+75 m

Where Chengdu is

Latitude 30.658601, longitude 104.064856. 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 Chengdu'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 499 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.