Elevation of Palakkad, Kerala, India

Palakkad, Kerala, India is 84 m (276 ft) above sea level.

Palakkad's height from sea level is 84 metres, or 276 feet. GeoNames reads 87 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 89 m.

Also written: Pulicat Palghat.

Ground within 5 km

70 m – 120 m

Mean 90 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 50 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 29

among the towns of Kerala, and 678th of 993 in India.

Nearest town

37.5 km to the NE, at 410 m, 326 m higher.

Cross-section through Palakkad

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 Palakkad; the vertical scale is the same on both.

974-15WE28.5 km
West to east: from 54 m at 14 km west to 125 m at 14 km east.
974-15NS28.5 km
North to south: from 905 m at 14 km north to 88 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Palakkad, 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 Palakkad

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kuniyamuthur (Tamil Nadu) 37.5 kmNE 410 m (1,345 ft) +326 m
Kurichi (Tamil Nadu) 39.1 kmNE 407 m (1,335 ft) +323 m

Peaks and passes near Palakkad

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

Where Palakkad is

Latitude 10.7867303, longitude 76.6547932. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Palakkad elevation: 84 m (276 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 Palakkad'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 87 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.