Elevation of Chauny, Picardie, France

Chauny, Picardie, France is 44 m (144 ft) above sea level.

Chauny's height from sea level is 44 metres, or 144 feet. GeoNames reads 49 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 42 m to 96 m.

Ground within 4 km

39 m – 95 m

Mean 58 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 56 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 25

among the towns of Picardie, and 679th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

6.9 km to the NE, at 52 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Chauny

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chauny; the vertical scale is the same on both.

15632WE23.7 km
West to east: from 124 m at 12 km west to 62 m at 12 km east.
15632NS23.7 km
North to south: from 68 m at 12 km north to 147 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Chauny, 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 Chauny

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tergnier 6.9 kmNE 52 m (171 ft) +8 m
Noyon 16.2 kmW 46 m (151 ft) +2 m
Saint-Quentin 26.2 kmN 97 m (318 ft) +53 m
Soissons 27.6 kmS 51 m (167 ft) +7 m
Laon 29.4 kmE 140 m (459 ft) +96 m

Where Chauny is

Latitude 49.615576, longitude 3.219421. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chauny elevation: 44 m (144 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 Chauny'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 49 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.