Elevation of Tours, Centre, France

Tours, Centre, France is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Tours's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 44 m to 109 m.

Ground within 4 km

45 m – 108 m

Mean 73 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 63 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 39

among the towns of Centre, and 603rd of 999 in France.

Nearest town

1.8 km to the NW, at 92 m, 39 m higher.

Cross-section through Tours

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tours; the vertical scale is the same on both.

10948WE24.1 km
West to east: from 87 m at 12 km west to 49 m at 12 km east.
10948NS24.1 km
North to south: from 108 m at 12 km north to 90 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Tours, 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 Tours

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 1.8 kmNW 92 m (302 ft) +39 m
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps 2.9 kmE 50 m (164 ft) −3 m
Saint-Avertin 4.3 kmSE 52 m (171 ft) −1 m
Joué-lès-Tours 5 kmS 79 m (259 ft) +26 m
Fondettes 6.5 kmW 94 m (308 ft) +41 m

Where Tours is

Latitude 47.394144, longitude 0.68484. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tours elevation: 53 m (174 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 Tours'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 52 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.