Elevation of Compiègne, Picardie, France

Compiègne, Picardie, France is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

Compiègne's height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 42 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

32 m – 137 m

Mean 56 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 105 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 25

among the towns of Picardie, and 712th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

20.6 km to the SW, at 32 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through Compiègne

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 Compiègne; the vertical scale is the same on both.

18220WE23.7 km
West to east: from 87 m at 12 km west to 49 m at 12 km east.
18220NS23.7 km
North to south: from 170 m at 12 km north to 102 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Compiègne, 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 Compiègne

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pont-Sainte-Maxence 20.6 kmSW 32 m (105 ft) −8 m
Crépy-en-Valois 20.7 kmS 93 m (305 ft) +53 m
Noyon 22 kmNE 46 m (151 ft) +6 m
Villers-Cotterêts 26.4 kmSE 132 m (433 ft) +92 m
Senlis 29.5 kmSW 65 m (213 ft) +25 m

Where Compiègne is

Latitude 49.417816, longitude 2.826145. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Compiègne elevation: 40 m (131 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 Compiègne'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 42 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.