Elevation of Torteval, Guernsey and Alderney

Torteval, Guernsey and Alderney is 76 m (249 ft) above sea level.

Torteval's height from sea level is 76 metres, or 249 feet. GeoNames reads 50 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 98 m

Mean 19 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 98 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 12

among the towns of Guernsey and Alderney with a reading.

Nearest town

2 km to the N, at 12 m, 64 m lower.

Cross-section through Torteval

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Torteval; the vertical scale is the same on both.

106-8WE23.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
106-8NS23.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Torteval, 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 Torteval

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saint Peter (Saint Pierre du Bois) 2 kmN 12 m (39 ft) −64 m
Saint Saviour (Saint Saviour) 2.6 kmNE 73 m (240 ft) −3 m
Saint Andrew (Saint Andrew) 5.1 kmNE 76 m (249 ft) same
Castel (Castel) 5.2 kmNE 22 m (72 ft) −54 m
Saint Martin (Saint Martin) 6 kmE 98 m (322 ft) +22 m

Peaks and passes near Torteval

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

Where Torteval is

Latitude 49.4293298, longitude -2.6367376. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Torteval elevation: 76 m (249 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 Torteval'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 50 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.