Elevation of Paltamo, Kainuu, Finland

Paltamo, Kainuu, Finland is 133 m (436 ft) above sea level.

Paltamo's height from sea level is 133 metres, or 436 feet. GeoNames reads 150 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

119 m – 219 m

Mean 144 m across the 7.3 km square centred on the town, 100 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 10

among the towns of Kainuu, and 54th of 436 in Finland.

Nearest town

20.7 km to the S, at 152 m, 19 m higher.

Cross-section through Paltamo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Paltamo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

209112WE20.6 km
West to east: from 127 m at 10 km west to 200 m at 10 km east.
209112NS20.6 km
North to south: from 185 m at 10 km north to 164 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Paltamo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 43 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 Paltamo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kajaani 20.7 kmS 152 m (499 ft) +19 m
Ristijärvi 21 kmNE 142 m (466 ft) +9 m

Where Paltamo is

Latitude 64.404226, longitude 27.8389322. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Paltamo elevation: 133 m (436 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 Paltamo'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 150 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.