Elevation of Vire, Basse-Normandie, France

Vire, Basse-Normandie, France is 180 m (591 ft) above sea level.

Vire's height from sea level is 180 metres, or 591 feet. GeoNames reads 179 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

89 m – 258 m

Mean 166 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 169 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 17

among the towns of Basse-Normandie, and 212th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

24.9 km to the SE, at 185 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Vire

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vire; the vertical scale is the same on both.

33070WE23.8 km
West to east: from 193 m at 12 km west to 204 m at 12 km east.
33070NS23.8 km
North to south: from 149 m at 12 km north to 209 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Vire, 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 Vire

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Flers 24.9 kmSE 185 m (607 ft) +5 m
Saint-Lô 34.3 kmNW 44 m (144 ft) −136 m

Peaks and passes near Vire

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

Where Vire is

Latitude 48.837781, longitude -0.888482. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vire elevation: 180 m (591 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 Vire'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 179 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.