Elevation of Orthez, Aquitaine, France

Orthez, Aquitaine, France is 75 m (246 ft) above sea level.

Orthez's height from sea level is 75 metres, or 246 feet. GeoNames reads 78 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Ortès Ortheze.

Ground within 4 km

60 m – 172 m

Mean 105 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 112 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 48

among the towns of Aquitaine, and 506th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

32.4 km to the SE, at 156 m, 81 m higher.

Cross-section through Orthez

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 Orthez; the vertical scale is the same on both.

20424WE24.8 km
West to east: from 120 m at 12 km west to 146 m at 12 km east.
20424NS24.8 km
North to south: from 37 m at 12 km north to 152 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Orthez, 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 Orthez

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lescar 32.4 kmSE 156 m (512 ft) +81 m
Dax 33.2 kmNW 12 m (39 ft) −63 m
Saint-Paul-lès-Dax 34.6 kmNW 27 m (89 ft) −48 m
Lons 35 kmSE 164 m (538 ft) +89 m
Oloron-Sainte-Marie 35.3 kmSE 230 m (755 ft) +155 m

Where Orthez is

Latitude 43.48756, longitude -0.7739279. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Orthez elevation: 75 m (246 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 Orthez'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 78 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.