Elevation of Vaala, Kainuu, Finland

Vaala, Kainuu, Finland is 140 m (459 ft) above sea level.

Vaala's height from sea level is 140 metres, or 459 feet. GeoNames reads 138 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

111 m – 151 m

Mean 130 m across the 7.3 km square centred on the town, 40 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 10

among the towns of Kainuu, and 46th of 436 in Finland.

Nearest town

30.1 km to the NW, at 89 m, 51 m lower.

Cross-section through Vaala

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 Vaala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

167106WE20.6 km
West to east: from 131 m at 10 km west to 159 m at 10 km east.
167106NS20.6 km
North to south: from 139 m at 10 km north to 139 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Vaala, 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 Vaala

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Utajärvi (North Ostrobothnia) 30.1 kmNW 89 m (292 ft) −51 m
Kestilä (North Ostrobothnia) 35 kmSW 104 m (341 ft) −36 m

Where Vaala is

Latitude 64.5598649, longitude 26.8409083. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vaala elevation: 140 m (459 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 Vaala'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 138 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.