Elevation of Coutances, Basse-Normandie, France

Coutances, Basse-Normandie, France is 64 m (210 ft) above sea level.

Coutances's height from sea level is 64 metres, or 210 feet. GeoNames reads 69 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

12 m – 147 m

Mean 79 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 135 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 17

among the towns of Basse-Normandie, and 550th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

Granville

25.9 km to the SW, at 15 m, 49 m lower.

Cross-section through Coutances

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Coutances; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 28 m at 12 km west to 100 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 40 m at 12 km north to 46 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Coutances, 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 Coutances

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Granville	25.9 km	SW	15 m (49 ft)	−49 m
Saint-Lô	26.9 km	E	44 m (144 ft)	−20 m

Where Coutances is

Latitude 49.047808, longitude -1.4452609. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Coutances'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 69 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.