Elevation of Athens, Attikí, Greece

Athens, Attikí, Greece is 123 m (404 ft) above sea level.

Athens's height from sea level is 123 metres, or 404 feet. GeoNames reads 84 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 74 m.

Also written: Athínai Athen Athènes Athína Atena Atenas Αθήναι.

Ground within 5 km

8 m – 517 m

Mean 123 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 509 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

63rd of 130

among the towns of Attikí, and 352nd of 991 in Greece.

Nearest town

Kaisarianí

1.9 km to the E, at 134 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Athens

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Athens; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 221 m at 13 km west to 189 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 237 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Athens, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Athens

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kaisarianí	1.9 km	E	134 m (440 ft)	+11 m
Víron	2.1 km	SE	144 m (472 ft)	+21 m
Imittós	2.7 km	S	122 m (400 ft)	−1 m
Kipséli	3.2 km	N	167 m (548 ft)	+44 m
Zográfos	3.3 km	E	168 m (551 ft)	+45 m

Peaks and passes near Athens

Párnis Óros, peak at 1,413 m (4,636 ft), 22.2 km to the N — 1,290 m above the town.
Mount Pentelicus, peak at 1,109 m (3,638 ft), 17.4 km to the NE — 986 m above the town.
Ymittós Óros, peak at 1,026 m (3,366 ft), 7.9 km to the SE — 903 m above the town.

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

Where Athens is

Latitude 37.9753357, longitude 23.7361497. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Athens'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 84 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.