Elevation of Faaa, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia

Faaa, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia is 44 m (144 ft) above sea level.

Faaa's height from sea level is 44 metres, or 144 feet. GeoNames reads 16 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Faa.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 850 m

Mean 113 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 850 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 28

among the towns of Îles du Vent, and 40th of 116 in French Polynesia.

Nearest town

Papeete

3.4 km to the NE, at 4 m, 40 m lower.

Cross-section through Faaa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Faaa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 528 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Faaa, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Faaa

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Papeete	3.4 km	NE	4 m (13 ft)	−40 m
Pirae	8.3 km	E	779 m (2,556 ft)	+735 m
Punaauia	8.8 km	S	190 m (623 ft)	+146 m
Arue	9.2 km	E	116 m (381 ft)	+72 m
Mahina	12.4 km	NE	13 m (43 ft)	−31 m

Peaks and passes near Faaa

Mont Orohena, peak at 2,241 m (7,352 ft), 14.2 km to the SE — 2,197 m above the town.

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

Where Faaa is

Latitude -17.550961, longitude -149.597397. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Faaa'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 16 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.