Elevation of Parthenay, Poitou-Charentes, France

Parthenay, Poitou-Charentes, France is 158 m (518 ft) above sea level.

Parthenay's height from sea level is 158 metres, or 518 feet. GeoNames reads 166 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 114 m to 184 m.

Ground within 4 km

140 m – 193 m

Mean 164 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 14

among the towns of Poitou-Charentes, and 268th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

28.3 km to the NW, at 164 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Parthenay

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Parthenay; the vertical scale is the same on both.

219128WE24.2 km
West to east: from 191 m at 12 km west to 167 m at 12 km east.
219128NS24.2 km
North to south: from 146 m at 12 km north to 186 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Parthenay, 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 Parthenay

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bressuire 28.3 kmNW 164 m (538 ft) +6 m
Thouars 36.5 kmN 97 m (318 ft) −61 m
Niort 39.7 kmSW 27 m (89 ft) −131 m

Where Parthenay is

Latitude 46.648825, longitude -0.251441. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Parthenay elevation: 158 m (518 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 Parthenay'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 166 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.