Elevation of Rive-de-Gier, Rhône-Alpes, France

Rive-de-Gier, Rhône-Alpes, France is 264 m (866 ft) above sea level.

Rive-de-Gier's height from sea level is 264 metres, or 866 feet. GeoNames reads 249 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

242 m – 598 m

Mean 385 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 356 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

45th of 92

among the towns of Rhône-Alpes, and 108th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

Saint-Chamond

9.8 km to the SW, at 369 m, 105 m higher.

Cross-section through Rive-de-Gier

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rive-de-Gier; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 731 m at 12 km west to 425 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 553 m at 12 km north to 1,201 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Rive-de-Gier, 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 Rive-de-Gier

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Saint-Chamond	9.8 km	SW	369 m (1,211 ft)	+105 m
Givors	13.7 km	NE	159 m (522 ft)	−105 m
Brignais	19.5 km	NE	219 m (719 ft)	−45 m
Vienne	20.2 km	E	155 m (509 ft)	−109 m
Saint-Étienne	20.3 km	SW	533 m (1,749 ft)	+269 m

Peaks and passes near Rive-de-Gier

Crêt de l'Arnica, peak at 1,430 m (4,692 ft), 16.4 km to the S — 1,166 m above the town.
Crêt de la Perdrix, peak at 1,429 m (4,688 ft), 16.5 km to the S — 1,165 m above the town.
Crêt de la Chèvre, peak at 1,427 m (4,682 ft), 16.7 km to the S — 1,163 m above the town.

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

Where Rive-de-Gier is

Latitude 45.527692, longitude 4.615349. 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 Rive-de-Gier'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 249 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.