Elevation of Kuressaare, Saare, Estonia

Kuressaare, Saare, Estonia is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Kuressaare's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 3 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Kingissepa Kuresaare Kingisepp Arensburg Kingissepp.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 12 m

Mean 4 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 12 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 35

among the towns of Saare, and 910th of 965 in Estonia.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the E, at 10 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Kuressaare

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kuressaare; the vertical scale is the same on both.

43-18WE21.9 km
West to east: from 1 m at 11 km west to 5 m at 11 km east.
43-18NS21.9 km
North to south: from 24 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Kuressaare, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 46 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 Kuressaare

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kudjape 2.1 kmE 10 m (33 ft) same
Laheküla 2.2 kmNW 5 m (16 ft) −5 m
Nasva 6.7 kmSW 4 m (13 ft) −6 m
Pähkla 6.9 kmN 11 m (36 ft) +1 m
Aste 10.6 kmN 23 m (75 ft) +13 m

Where Kuressaare is

Latitude 58.2534502, longitude 22.4891662. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kuressaare elevation: 10 m (33 ft) above sea level

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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 Kuressaare'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 3 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.