Elevation of Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland

Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Vaasa's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 7 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 6 m.

Also written: Vasa Nikolainkaupunki.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 15 m

Mean 4 m across the 7.4 km square centred on the town, 15 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 17

among the towns of Ostrobothnia, and 421st of 436 in Finland.

Nearest town

3.9 km to the NE, at 16 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through Vaasa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vaasa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

52-9WE20.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 16 m at 10 km east.
52-9NS20.9 km
North to south: from 8 m at 10 km north to 35 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Vaasa, 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 Vaasa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mustasaari 3.9 kmNE 16 m (52 ft) +10 m
Maalahti 16.9 kmS 14 m (46 ft) +8 m
Kiiminki (Central Ostrobothnia) 22.4 kmN 0 m (0 ft) −6 m
Laihia 23.2 kmSE 22 m (72 ft) +16 m
Vähäkyrö 25 kmE 18 m (59 ft) +12 m

Where Vaasa is

Latitude 63.0951412, longitude 21.6165128. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vaasa elevation: 6 m (20 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 Vaasa'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 7 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.