Elevation of Houilles, Île-de-France, France

Houilles, Île-de-France, France is 42 m (138 ft) above sea level.

Houilles's height from sea level is 42 metres, or 138 feet. GeoNames reads 30 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 27 m to 57 m.

Ground within 4 km

23 m – 127 m

Mean 43 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 104 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

214th of 264

among the towns of Île-de-France, and 695th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

1.9 km to the SW, at 47 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Houilles

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 Houilles; the vertical scale is the same on both.

15316WE23.8 km
West to east: from 62 m at 12 km west to 30 m at 12 km east.
15316NS23.8 km
North to south: from 79 m at 12 km north to 104 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Houilles, 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 Houilles

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Carrières-sur-Seine 1.9 kmSW 47 m (154 ft) +5 m
Bezons 2 kmE 32 m (105 ft) −10 m
Sartrouville 2.7 kmNW 34 m (112 ft) −8 m
Montesson 3.5 kmSW 42 m (138 ft) same
Chatou 4 kmSW 33 m (108 ft) −9 m

Where Houilles is

Latitude 48.926916, longitude 2.18888. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Houilles elevation: 42 m (138 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 Houilles'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 30 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.