Elevation of Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France is 42 m (138 ft) above sea level.

Montpellier's height from sea level is 42 metres, or 138 feet. GeoNames reads 55 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 14 m.

Also written: Montpelhier.

Ground within 4 km

3 m – 93 m

Mean 40 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 90 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 35

among the towns of Languedoc-Roussillon, and 695th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

Castelnau-le-Lez

3.1 km to the NE, at 57 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Montpellier

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 Montpellier; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 108 m at 12 km west to 7 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 101 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Montpellier, 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 Montpellier

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Castelnau-le-Lez	3.1 km	NE	57 m (187 ft)	+15 m
Lattes	5.1 km	S	5 m (16 ft)	−37 m
Saint-Jean-de-Védas	5.7 km	SW	50 m (164 ft)	+8 m
Pérols	8.1 km	SE	5 m (16 ft)	−37 m
Saint-Gély-du-Fesc	10.8 km	NW	126 m (413 ft)	+84 m

Peaks and passes near Montpellier

Pic Saint-Loup, peak at 658 m (2,159 ft), 19.4 km to the N — 616 m above the town.
La Suque, peak at 325 m (1,066 ft), 17.6 km to the N — 283 m above the town.
Puech des Mourgues, peak at 274 m (899 ft), 19.3 km to the N — 232 m above the town.

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

Where Montpellier is

Latitude 43.610769, longitude 3.876716. 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 Montpellier'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 55 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.