Elevation of Tartu, Estonia

Tartu, Estonia is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

Tartu's height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 79 m.

Also written: Dorpat Jurev Yurev Yur'yev.

Ground within 4 km

32 m – 79 m

Mean 51 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

77th of 89

among the towns of Tartu, and 685th of 965 in Estonia.

Nearest town

0 km to the N, at 40 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Tartu

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 Tartu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

8221WE21.9 km
West to east: from 49 m at 11 km west to 53 m at 11 km east.
8221NS21.9 km
North to south: from 68 m at 11 km north to 64 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Tartu, 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 Tartu

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Luunja 0 kmN 40 m (131 ft) same
Märja 1.5 kmNW 40 m (131 ft) same
Tähtvere 2.2 kmW 55 m (180 ft) +15 m
Räni 2.4 kmSW 73 m (240 ft) +33 m
Ilmatsalu 2.6 kmW 62 m (203 ft) +22 m

Where Tartu is

Latitude 58.3788579, longitude 26.732664. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tartu elevation: 40 m (131 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 Tartu'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 39 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.