Elevation of Lons, Aquitaine, France

Lons, Aquitaine, France is 164 m (538 ft) above sea level.

Lons's height from sea level is 164 metres, or 538 feet. GeoNames reads 167 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 158 m to 207 m.

Ground within 4 km

150 m – 312 m

Mean 201 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 162 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 48

among the towns of Aquitaine, and 249th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

1.9 km to the SE, at 180 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Lons

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 Lons; the vertical scale is the same on both.

368125WE24.8 km
West to east: from 222 m at 12 km west to 242 m at 12 km east.
368125NS24.8 km
North to south: from 187 m at 12 km north to 351 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Lons, 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 Lons

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Billère 1.9 kmSE 180 m (591 ft) +16 m
Lescar 2.7 kmNW 156 m (512 ft) −8 m
Pau 4 kmSE 206 m (676 ft) +42 m
Oloron-Sainte-Marie 20.7 kmSW 230 m (755 ft) +66 m
Orthez 35 kmNW 75 m (246 ft) −89 m

Where Lons is

Latitude 43.315739, longitude -0.411051. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lons elevation: 164 m (538 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Lons'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 167 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.