Elevation of Bègles, Aquitaine, France

Bègles, Aquitaine, France is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Bègles's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3 m to 18 m.

Ground within 4 km

2 m – 69 m

Mean 16 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 67 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

44th of 48

among the towns of Aquitaine, and 978th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

2.4 km to the NE, at 6 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Bègles

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bègles; the vertical scale is the same on both.

78-5WE24.6 km
West to east: from 47 m at 12 km west to 69 m at 12 km east.
78-5NS24.6 km
North to south: from 1 m at 12 km north to 51 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Bègles, 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 Bègles

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Floirac 2.4 kmNE 6 m (20 ft) +1 m
Talence 3.6 kmW 20 m (66 ft) +15 m
Bordeaux 4 kmNW 17 m (56 ft) +12 m
Villenave-d'Ornon 4 kmSW 11 m (36 ft) +6 m
Cenon 5.2 kmN 35 m (115 ft) +30 m

Where Bègles is

Latitude 44.812023, longitude -0.543784. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bègles elevation: 5 m (16 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 Bègles'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 6 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.