Elevation of Cahors, Midi-Pyrénées, France

Cahors, Midi-Pyrénées, France is 138 m (453 ft) above sea level.

Cahors's height from sea level is 138 metres, or 453 feet. GeoNames reads 142 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Caurs.

Ground within 4 km

118 m – 277 m

Mean 200 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 159 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 38

among the towns of Midi-Pyrénées, and 312th of 999 in France.

Cross-section through Cahors

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cahors; the vertical scale is the same on both.

331109WE24.6 km
West to east: from 278 m at 12 km west to 239 m at 12 km east.
331109NS24.6 km
North to south: from 315 m at 12 km north to 272 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Cahors, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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.

Where Cahors is

Latitude 44.4475229, longitude 1.441989. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cahors elevation: 138 m (453 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 Cahors'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 142 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.