Elevation of Varkaus, North Savo, Finland

Varkaus, North Savo, Finland is 78 m (256 ft) above sea level.

Varkaus's height from sea level is 78 metres, or 256 feet. GeoNames reads 76 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

62 m – 125 m

Mean 81 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 63 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 25

among the towns of North Savo, and 220th of 436 in Finland.

Nearest town

15.4 km to the S, at 111 m, 33 m higher.

Cross-section through Varkaus

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 Varkaus; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11453WE21.1 km
West to east: from 83 m at 11 km west to 86 m at 11 km east.
11453NS21.1 km
North to south: from 74 m at 11 km north to 83 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Varkaus, 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 Varkaus

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Joroinen (South Savo) 15.4 kmS 111 m (364 ft) +33 m
Kangaslampi 18.9 kmE 96 m (315 ft) +18 m
Leppävirta 20.9 kmN 86 m (282 ft) +8 m
Jäppilä (South Savo) 24.7 kmW 108 m (354 ft) +30 m
Virtasalmi (South Savo) 30.2 kmSW 102 m (335 ft) +24 m

Where Varkaus is

Latitude 62.3142896, longitude 27.8924686. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Varkaus elevation: 78 m (256 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 Varkaus'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 76 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.