Elevation of Villefontaine, Rhône-Alpes, France

Villefontaine, Rhône-Alpes, France is 274 m (899 ft) above sea level.

Villefontaine's height from sea level is 274 metres, or 899 feet. GeoNames reads 281 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

207 m – 441 m

Mean 298 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 234 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

44th of 92

among the towns of Rhône-Alpes, and 103rd of 999 in France.

Nearest town

6.3 km to the E, at 235 m, 39 m lower.

Cross-section through Villefontaine

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Villefontaine; the vertical scale is the same on both.

496185WE24.4 km
West to east: from 332 m at 12 km west to 284 m at 12 km east.
496185NS24.4 km
North to south: from 211 m at 12 km north to 404 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Villefontaine, 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 Villefontaine

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
L'Isle-d'Abeau 6.3 kmE 235 m (771 ft) −39 m
Bourgoin-Jallieu 9.7 kmE 234 m (768 ft) −40 m
Mions 16.7 kmW 214 m (702 ft) −60 m
Genas 17.5 kmNW 233 m (764 ft) −41 m
Saint-Priest 18.4 kmNW 220 m (722 ft) −54 m

Where Villefontaine is

Latitude 45.613538, longitude 5.150093. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Villefontaine elevation: 274 m (899 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 Villefontaine'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 281 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.