Elevation of Mykines, Vága, Faroe Islands

Mykines, Vága, Faroe Islands is 0 m (0 ft) above sea level.

Mykines's height from sea level is 0 metres, or 0 feet. GeoNames reads 1 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 353 m

Mean 19 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 353 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 4

among the towns of Vága, and 92nd of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

23.7 km to the E, at 31 m, 31 m higher.

Cross-section through Mykines

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mykines; the vertical scale is the same on both.

54-7WE21.1 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
54-7NS21.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Mykines, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 44 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 Mykines

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Miðvágur 23.7 kmE 31 m (102 ft) +31 m
Vestmanna (Streymoy) 25.4 kmE 301 m (988 ft) +301 m
Sandavágur 26 kmE 103 m (338 ft) +103 m
Saksun (Streymoy) 28.9 kmNE 410 m (1,345 ft) +410 m
Kvívík (Streymoy) 30.4 kmE 243 m (797 ft) +243 m

Peaks and passes near Mykines

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

Where Mykines is

Latitude 62.110161, longitude -7.639771. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mykines elevation: 0 m (0 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 Mykines'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 1 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.