Elevation of Dax, Aquitaine, France

Dax, Aquitaine, France is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Dax's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 16 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2 m to 46 m.

Also written: d'Acs Akize Ax.

Ground within 4 km

5 m – 54 m

Mean 21 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 48

among the towns of Aquitaine, and 924th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

1.8 km to the N, at 27 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Dax

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Dax; the vertical scale is the same on both.

960WE24.8 km
West to east: from 45 m at 12 km west to 45 m at 12 km east.
960NS24.8 km
North to south: from 89 m at 12 km north to 42 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Dax, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Dax

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saint-Paul-lès-Dax 1.8 kmN 27 m (89 ft) +15 m
Orthez 33.2 kmSE 75 m (246 ft) +63 m
Tarnos 37.8 kmSW 35 m (115 ft) +23 m

Where Dax is

Latitude 43.708608, longitude -1.051945. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dax elevation: 12 m (39 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 Dax'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 16 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.