Elevation of Alajuela, Costa Rica

Alajuela, Costa Rica is 922 m (3,025 ft) above sea level.

Alajuela's height from sea level is 922 metres, or 3,025 feet. GeoNames reads 955 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 952 m.

Ground within 5 km

786 m – 1,245 m

Mean 937 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 459 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 108th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Carrillos

5.4 km to the W, at 904 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Alajuela

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alajuela; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 675 m at 14 km west to 1,264 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,747 m at 14 km north to 1,061 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Alajuela, 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 Alajuela

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Carrillos	5.4 km	W	904 m (2,966 ft)	−18 m
San Antonio	6.1 km	SE	927 m (3,041 ft)	+5 m
Sabanilla	6.8 km	N	1,284 m (4,213 ft)	+362 m
San Pedro	7 km	NW	1,112 m (3,648 ft)	+190 m
Santa Bárbara (Heredia)	7.1 km	E	1,136 m (3,727 ft)	+214 m

Peaks and passes near Alajuela

Volcán Barva, volcano at 2,906 m (9,534 ft), 18.2 km to the NE — 1,984 m above the town.
Volcán Poás, volcano at 2,708 m (8,885 ft), 20.1 km to the N — 1,786 m above the town.
Cerro Rabo de Mico, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 20.9 km to the SE — 1,506 m above the town.

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

Where Alajuela is

Latitude 10.01644, longitude -84.22126. 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 Alajuela'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 955 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.