Elevation of Chinon, Centre, France

Chinon, Centre, France is 82 m (269 ft) above sea level.

Chinon's height from sea level is 82 metres, or 269 feet. GeoNames reads 40 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 27 m to 112 m.

Ground within 4 km

31 m – 105 m

Mean 58 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 74 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 39

among the towns of Centre, and 472nd of 999 in France.

Nearest town

26.4 km to the NW, at 29 m, 53 m lower.

Cross-section through Chinon

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chinon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

12022WE24.2 km
West to east: from 75 m at 12 km west to 113 m at 12 km east.
12022NS24.2 km
North to south: from 60 m at 12 km north to 69 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Chinon, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 51 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 Chinon

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saumur (Pays-de-la-Loire) 26.4 kmNW 29 m (95 ft) −53 m
Joué-lès-Tours 37.8 kmNE 79 m (259 ft) −3 m
Fondettes 37.9 kmNE 94 m (308 ft) +12 m

Where Chinon is

Latitude 47.167296, longitude 0.240385. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chinon elevation: 82 m (269 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 Chinon'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 40 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.