Elevation of Tegucigalpa, Distrito Central, Honduras

Tegucigalpa, Distrito Central, Honduras is 952 m (3,123 ft) above sea level.

Tegucigalpa's height from sea level is 952 metres, or 3,123 feet. GeoNames reads 944 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 990 m.

Ground within 5 km

938 m – 1,376 m

Mean 1,066 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 438 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

113th of 591

among the towns of Honduras with a reading.

Nearest town

1.1 km to the NW, at 975 m, 23 m higher.

Cross-section through Tegucigalpa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tegucigalpa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,765882WE28.3 km
West to east: from 1,370 m at 14 km west to 1,266 m at 14 km east.
1,765882NS28.3 km
North to south: from 958 m at 14 km north to 1,332 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Tegucigalpa, 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 Tegucigalpa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Colonia Cruz Roja (Francisco Morazán) 1.1 kmNW 975 m (3,199 ft) +23 m
San Francisco de Orica (Francisco Morazán) 1.4 kmNW 997 m (3,271 ft) +45 m
Penitenciaria Central (Francisco Morazán) 2.8 kmNE 938 m (3,077 ft) −14 m
Colonia Nueva Sinai (Colón) 2.9 kmNE 938 m (3,077 ft) −14 m
San Rafael (Lempira) 3 kmNE 960 m (3,150 ft) +8 m

Where Tegucigalpa is

Latitude 14.0833, longitude -87.2167. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tegucigalpa elevation: 952 m (3,123 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 Tegucigalpa'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 944 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.