Elevation of Chartres, Centre, France

Chartres, Centre, France is 155 m (509 ft) above sea level.

Chartres's height from sea level is 155 metres, or 509 feet. GeoNames reads 158 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 121 m to 161 m.

Ground within 4 km

124 m – 161 m

Mean 148 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 37 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 39

among the towns of Centre, and 275th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

1.7 km to the W, at 157 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Chartres

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chartres; the vertical scale is the same on both.

178117WE23.9 km
West to east: from 156 m at 12 km west to 145 m at 12 km east.
178117NS23.9 km
North to south: from 153 m at 12 km north to 148 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Chartres, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 50 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 Chartres

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lucé 1.7 kmW 157 m (515 ft) +2 m
Mainvillier 1.9 kmW 155 m (509 ft) same
Vernouillet 32.3 kmN 95 m (312 ft) −60 m
Rambouillet (Île-de-France) 33.5 kmNE 161 m (528 ft) +6 m
Dreux 33.6 kmN 95 m (312 ft) −60 m

Where Chartres is

Latitude 48.443854, longitude 1.489012. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chartres elevation: 155 m (509 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Chartres'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 158 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.