Elevation of Mettūr, Tamil Nadu, India

Mettūr, Tamil Nadu, India is 216 m (709 ft) above sea level.

Mettūr's height from sea level is 216 metres, or 709 feet. GeoNames reads 205 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 238 m.

Also written: Mettur.

Ground within 5 km

198 m – 905 m

Mean 318 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 707 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 94

among the towns of Tamil Nadu, and 436th of 993 in India.

Nearest town

22.8 km to the S, at 209 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Mettūr

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mettūr; the vertical scale is the same on both.

655166WE28.5 km
West to east: from 382 m at 14 km west to 321 m at 14 km east.
655166NS28.5 km
North to south: from 236 m at 14 km north to 249 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mettūr, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Mettūr

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Idāppādi 22.8 kmS 209 m (686 ft) −7 m
Velampalaiyam 30.5 kmSE 257 m (843 ft) +41 m
Kumārapālaiyam 39.4 kmS 184 m (604 ft) −32 m
Salem 40 kmE 283 m (928 ft) +67 m

Where Mettūr is

Latitude 11.7862533, longitude 77.8007853. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mettūr elevation: 216 m (709 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 Mettūr'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 205 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.