Elevation of Vichy, Auvergne, France

Vichy, Auvergne, France is 263 m (863 ft) above sea level.

Vichy's height from sea level is 263 metres, or 863 feet. GeoNames reads 266 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 243 m to 317 m.

Ground within 4 km

246 m – 421 m

Mean 296 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 175 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 17

among the towns of Auvergne, and 109th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

2.4 km to the E, at 299 m, 36 m higher.

Cross-section through Vichy

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vichy; the vertical scale is the same on both.

450229WE24.3 km
West to east: from 319 m at 12 km west to 409 m at 12 km east.
450229NS24.3 km
North to south: from 266 m at 12 km north to 301 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Vichy, 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 Vichy

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cusset 2.4 kmE 299 m (981 ft) +36 m
Thiers 31.8 kmS 369 m (1,211 ft) +106 m
Riom 35.7 kmSW 341 m (1,119 ft) +78 m
Pont-du-Château 39.7 kmS 334 m (1,096 ft) +71 m

Where Vichy is

Latitude 46.131859, longitude 3.425488. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vichy elevation: 263 m (863 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 Vichy'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 266 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.