Elevation of Hirson, Picardie, France

Hirson, Picardie, France is 181 m (594 ft) above sea level.

Hirson's height from sea level is 181 metres, or 594 feet. GeoNames reads 173 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

154 m – 258 m

Mean 202 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 104 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 25

among the towns of Picardie, and 209th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

11.2 km to the N, at 203 m, 22 m higher.

Cross-section through Hirson

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hirson; the vertical scale is the same on both.

278126WE23.6 km
West to east: from 137 m at 12 km west to 261 m at 12 km east.
278126NS23.6 km
North to south: from 221 m at 12 km north to 212 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Hirson, 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 Hirson

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Fourmies (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) 11.2 kmN 203 m (666 ft) +22 m
Momignies (Belgium) 13.2 kmNE 255 m (837 ft) +74 m
Chimay (Belgium) 22.1 kmNE 250 m (820 ft) +69 m
Sivry-Rance (Belgium) 28 kmN 210 m (689 ft) +29 m
Froidchapelle (Belgium) 30.9 kmNE 252 m (827 ft) +71 m

Where Hirson is

Latitude 49.9200919, longitude 4.084192. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hirson elevation: 181 m (594 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 Hirson'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 173 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.