Elevation of Sotkamo, Kainuu, Finland

Sotkamo, Kainuu, Finland is 154 m (505 ft) above sea level.

Sotkamo's height from sea level is 154 metres, or 505 feet. GeoNames reads 134 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

133 m – 181 m

Mean 142 m across the 7.3 km square centred on the town, 48 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 10

among the towns of Kainuu, and 31st of 436 in Finland.

Nearest town

33.5 km to the W, at 152 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Sotkamo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sotkamo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

303120WE20.7 km
West to east: from 290 m at 10 km west to 155 m at 10 km east.
303120NS20.7 km
North to south: from 238 m at 10 km north to 170 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Sotkamo, 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 Sotkamo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kajaani 33.5 kmW 152 m (499 ft) −2 m

Where Sotkamo is

Latitude 64.1306547, longitude 28.3904979. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sotkamo elevation: 154 m (505 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 Sotkamo'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 134 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.