Elevation of Soissons, Picardie, France

Soissons, Picardie, France is 51 m (167 ft) above sea level.

Soissons's height from sea level is 51 metres, or 167 feet. GeoNames reads 50 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 38 m to 130 m.

Ground within 4 km

38 m – 156 m

Mean 88 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 118 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 25

among the towns of Picardie, and 618th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

21.6 km to the SW, at 132 m, 81 m higher.

Cross-section through Soissons

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Soissons; the vertical scale is the same on both.

20528WE23.7 km
West to east: from 56 m at 12 km west to 46 m at 12 km east.
20528NS23.7 km
North to south: from 61 m at 12 km north to 192 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Soissons, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 50 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 Soissons

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Villers-Cotterêts 21.6 kmSW 132 m (433 ft) +81 m
Chauny 27.6 kmN 44 m (144 ft) −7 m
Laon 29.9 kmNE 140 m (459 ft) +89 m
Tergnier 31.2 kmN 52 m (171 ft) +1 m
Noyon 32.5 kmNW 46 m (151 ft) −5 m

Where Soissons is

Latitude 49.376636, longitude 3.32342. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Soissons elevation: 51 m (167 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 Soissons'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 50 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.