Elevation of Virtsu, Lääne, Estonia

Virtsu, Lääne, Estonia is 2 m (7 ft) above sea level.

Virtsu's height from sea level is 2 metres, or 7 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 19 m

Mean 3 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 19 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 29

among the towns of Lääne, and 960th of 965 in Estonia.

Nearest town

8 km to the NE, at 12 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through Virtsu

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 Virtsu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

38-22WE21.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 10 m at 11 km east.
38-22NS21.9 km
North to south: from 2 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 46 km around Virtsu, 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 Virtsu

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kōmsi 8 kmNE 12 m (39 ft) +10 m
Vatla 11.9 kmE 10 m (33 ft) +8 m
Hellamaa (Saare) 12 kmW 14 m (46 ft) +12 m
Tuudi 16.6 kmNE 23 m (75 ft) +21 m
Risti 18.5 kmE 21 m (69 ft) +19 m

Where Virtsu is

Latitude 58.5784866, longitude 23.5236888. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Virtsu elevation: 2 m (7 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 Virtsu'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 11 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.