Elevation of Sonsonate, El Salvador

Sonsonate, El Salvador is 247 m (810 ft) above sea level.

Sonsonate's height from sea level is 247 metres, or 810 feet. GeoNames reads 245 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 220 m.

Ground within 5 km

143 m – 505 m

Mean 300 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 362 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 8

among the towns of Sonsonate, and 77th of 107 in El Salvador.

Nearest town

Sonzacate

2 km to the N, at 288 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through Sonsonate

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sonsonate; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 249 m at 14 km west to 518 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,051 m at 14 km north to 55 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Sonsonate, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Sonsonate

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sonzacate	2 km	N	288 m (945 ft)	+41 m
San Antonio del Monte	2.3 km	W	240 m (787 ft)	−7 m
Izalco	5.8 km	NE	424 m (1,391 ft)	+177 m
Nahuizalco	7.6 km	N	567 m (1,860 ft)	+320 m
Guaymango (Ahuachapán)	14.3 km	W	373 m (1,224 ft)	+126 m

Peaks and passes near Sonsonate

Volcán de Santa Ana, volcano at 2,381 m (7,812 ft), 17.6 km to the NE — 2,134 m above the town.
Volcán de Izalco, volcano at 1,950 m (6,398 ft), 14.1 km to the NE — 1,703 m above the town.

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

Where Sonsonate is

Latitude 13.7166667, longitude -89.7166667. 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 Sonsonate'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 245 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.