Elevation of Budapest, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary is 136 m (446 ft) above sea level.

Budapest's height from sea level is 136 metres, or 446 feet. GeoNames reads 104 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 117 m.

Ground within 4 km

97 m – 329 m

Mean 141 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 232 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

245th of 843

among the towns of Hungary with a reading.

Nearest town

7.5 km to the SW, at 158 m, 22 m higher.

Cross-section through Budapest

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Budapest; the vertical scale is the same on both.

48865WE24.1 km
West to east: from 208 m at 12 km west to 121 m at 12 km east.
48865NS24.1 km
North to south: from 140 m at 12 km north to 95 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Budapest, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 51 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 Budapest

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Budaörs (Pest) 7.5 kmSW 158 m (518 ft) +22 m
Budakeszi (Pest) 8.4 kmW 244 m (801 ft) +108 m
Üröm (Pest) 11.3 kmN 173 m (568 ft) +37 m
Törökbálint (Pest) 11.7 kmSW 164 m (538 ft) +28 m
Pilisborosjenő (Pest) 12.5 kmN 206 m (676 ft) +70 m

Peaks and passes near Budapest

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

Where Budapest is

Latitude 47.4984056, longitude 19.0407578. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Budapest elevation: 136 m (446 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 Budapest'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 104 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.