Elevation of Qasigiannguit, Greenland

Qasigiannguit, Greenland is 125 m (410 ft) above sea level.

Qasigiannguit's height from sea level is 125 metres, or 410 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Christianshåb.

Ground within 3 km

0 m – 331 m

Mean 136 m across the 6.9 km square centred on the town, 331 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 99

among the towns of Greenland with a reading.

Nearest town

29.3 km to the N, at 38 m, 87 m lower.

Cross-section through Qasigiannguit

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 19.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Qasigiannguit; the vertical scale is the same on both.

434-33WE19.6 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 401 m at 10 km east.
434-33NS19.6 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 0 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 41 km around Qasigiannguit, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 41 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 Qasigiannguit

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ilimanaq (Ilulissat) 29.3 kmN 38 m (125 ft) −87 m
Ikamiut 33.6 kmSW 0 m (0 ft) −125 m

Where Qasigiannguit is

Latitude 68.818244, longitude -51.174347. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Qasigiannguit elevation: 125 m (410 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 Qasigiannguit'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 13 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.