Elevation of Tarbes, Midi-Pyrénées, France

Tarbes, Midi-Pyrénées, France is 318 m (1,043 ft) above sea level.

Tarbes's height from sea level is 318 metres, or 1,043 feet. GeoNames reads 316 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 284 m to 326 m.

Also written: Tarba.

Ground within 4 km

280 m – 369 m

Mean 320 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 89 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 38

among the towns of Midi-Pyrénées, and 75th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

18.7 km to the SW, at 404 m, 86 m higher.

Cross-section through Tarbes

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tarbes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

572210WE24.9 km
West to east: from 423 m at 12 km west to 323 m at 12 km east.
572210NS24.9 km
North to south: from 235 m at 12 km north to 543 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Tarbes, 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 Tarbes

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lourdes 18.7 kmSW 404 m (1,325 ft) +86 m
Pau (Aquitaine) 37 kmW 206 m (676 ft) −112 m
Billère (Aquitaine) 39.3 kmW 180 m (591 ft) −138 m

Peaks and passes near Tarbes

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

Where Tarbes is

Latitude 43.232951, longitude 0.078082. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tarbes elevation: 318 m (1,043 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 Tarbes'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 316 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.