Elevation of San José, Alajuela, Costa Rica

San José, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 46 m (151 ft) above sea level.

San José's height from sea level is 46 metres, or 151 feet. GeoNames reads 50 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

39 m – 77 m

Mean 50 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 38 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 178th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Upala

15.4 km to the SE, at 54 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through San José

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 San José; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 83 m at 14 km west to 40 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 31 m at 14 km north to 297 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around San José, 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 San José

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Upala	15.4 km	SE	54 m (177 ft)	+8 m
Bijagua	26.8 km	S	837 m (2,746 ft)	+791 m
Dos Ríos	28.7 km	W	541 m (1,775 ft)	+495 m
Fortuna (Guanacaste)	33.9 km	S	425 m (1,394 ft)	+379 m

Peaks and passes near San José

Volcán Miravalles, volcano at 2,028 m (6,654 ft), 24.9 km to the S — 1,982 m above the town.
Cerro Cucaracha, peak at 63 m (207 ft), 11.9 km to the N — 17 m above the town.

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

Where San José is

Latitude 10.97, longitude -85.13. 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 San José'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 50 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.