Elevation of San Juan, San José, Costa Rica

San Juan, San José, Costa Rica is 1,156 m (3,793 ft) above sea level.

San Juan's height from sea level is 1,156 metres, or 3,793 feet. Wikidata records 1,151 m to 1,162 m.

Also written: San Juan de Dios.

Ground within 5 km

1,037 m – 1,530 m

Mean 1,164 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 493 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

33rd of 55

among the towns of San José, and 65th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Damas

0.5 km to the N, at 1,158 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through San Juan

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 Juan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 891 m at 14 km west to 1,812 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,680 m at 14 km north to 1,469 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Juan, 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 Juan

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Damas	0.5 km	N	1,158 m (3,799 ft)	+2 m
Santa Lucía (Heredia)	0.7 km	W	1,157 m (3,796 ft)	+1 m
Rivera (Heredia)	2.1 km	E	1,189 m (3,901 ft)	+33 m
Calle Blancos	2.2 km	NE	1,169 m (3,835 ft)	+13 m
Dulce Nombre de Jesús	2.4 km	SW	1,127 m (3,698 ft)	−29 m

Peaks and passes near San Juan

Volcán Barva, volcano at 2,906 m (9,534 ft), 22.7 km to the N — 1,750 m above the town.
Cerro Pico Alto, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 11.1 km to the SW — 1,272 m above the town.
Cerro Rabo de Mico, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 11.3 km to the SW — 1,272 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 Juan is

Latitude 9.9315369, longitude -84.0797961. 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 San Juan'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.