Elevation of Iráklion, Nisia Aigaiou Kriti, Greece

Iráklion, Nisia Aigaiou Kriti, Greece is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Iráklion's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 60 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 33 m.

Also written: Herakleion Heraklion Iraclion Iraklio Candia Ηράκλειον.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 241 m

Mean 54 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 241 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

65th of 133

among the towns of Nisia Aigaiou Kriti, and 570th of 991 in Greece.

Nearest town

Néa Alikarnassós

2.1 km to the NE, at 29 m, 24 m lower.

Cross-section through Iráklion

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Iráklion; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 392 m at 13 km west to 21 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 252 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Iráklion, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Iráklion

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Néa Alikarnassós	2.1 km	NE	29 m (95 ft)	−24 m
Ayía Eiríni	3.5 km	W	15 m (49 ft)	−38 m
Gázion	6.2 km	W	20 m (66 ft)	−33 m
Vasilíai	6.6 km	S	203 m (666 ft)	+150 m
Skalánion	6.6 km	SE	214 m (702 ft)	+161 m

Peaks and passes near Iráklion

Koudhoúni, peak at 1,868 m (6,129 ft), 23.6 km to the SW — 1,815 m above the town.
Mavro Lakki, peak at 1,800 m (5,906 ft), 24.3 km to the SW — 1,747 m above the town.
Gyristh, peak at 1,779 m (5,837 ft), 23.7 km to the SW — 1,726 m above the town.

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

Where Iráklion is

Latitude 35.329162, longitude 25.138526. 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 Iráklion'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 60 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.