Elevation of Montbrison, Rhône-Alpes, France

Montbrison, Rhône-Alpes, France is 405 m (1,329 ft) above sea level.

Montbrison's height from sea level is 405 metres, or 1,329 feet. GeoNames reads 394 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

360 m – 752 m

Mean 461 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 392 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 92

among the towns of Rhône-Alpes, and 41st of 999 in France.

Nearest town

Andrézieux-Bouthéon

17.8 km to the SE, at 387 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Montbrison

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Montbrison; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,150 m at 12 km west to 355 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 367 m at 12 km north to 747 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Montbrison, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 51 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 Montbrison

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Andrézieux-Bouthéon	17.8 km	SE	387 m (1,270 ft)	−18 m
Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert	18.3 km	SE	390 m (1,280 ft)	−15 m
Roche-la-Molière	28 km	SE	557 m (1,827 ft)	+152 m
Firminy	30 km	SE	483 m (1,585 ft)	+78 m
Le Chambon-Feugerolles	31.2 km	SE	513 m (1,683 ft)	+108 m

Peaks and passes near Montbrison

Pierre-sur-Haute, peak at 1,634 m (5,361 ft), 20.4 km to the W — 1,229 m above the town.
Procher Ouest, peak at 1,544 m (5,066 ft), 22 km to the W — 1,139 m above the town.
Peyre Mayou, peak at 1,542 m (5,059 ft), 22.4 km to the W — 1,137 m above the town.
Col du Béal, pass at 1,390 m (4,560 ft), 23.5 km to the W.

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

Where Montbrison is

Latitude 45.60745, longitude 4.063338. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Montbrison'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 394 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.