Elevation of Martigues, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France

Martigues, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Martigues's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 5 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 157 m

Mean 40 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 157 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

87th of 91

among the towns of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, and 978th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

5.5 km to the W, at 5 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Martigues

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 Martigues; the vertical scale is the same on both.

92-7WE24.8 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
92-7NS24.8 km
North to south: from 9 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Martigues, 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 Martigues

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Port-de-Bouc 5.5 kmW 5 m (16 ft) same
Châteauneuf-les-Martigues 9.3 kmE 99 m (325 ft) +94 m
Fos-sur-Mer 9.5 kmNW 6 m (20 ft) +1 m
Berre-l'Etang 12.1 kmNE 3 m (10 ft) −2 m
Istres 13.1 kmNW 14 m (46 ft) +9 m

Peaks and passes near Martigues

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Martigues is

Latitude 43.404811, longitude 5.053728. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Martigues elevation: 5 m (16 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 Martigues'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 5 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.