Elevation of Tenkāsi, Tamil Nadu, India

Tenkāsi, Tamil Nadu, India is 165 m (541 ft) above sea level.

Tenkāsi's height from sea level is 165 metres, or 541 feet. GeoNames reads 170 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 143 m.

Also written: Tenkasi.

Ground within 5 km

139 m – 386 m

Mean 170 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 247 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

40th of 94

among the towns of Tamil Nadu, and 549th of 993 in India.

Nearest town

12.9 km to the N, at 192 m, 27 m higher.

Cross-section through Tenkāsi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tenkāsi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

75278WE28.6 km
West to east: from 705 m at 14 km west to 127 m at 14 km east.
75278NS28.6 km
North to south: from 198 m at 14 km north to 268 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tenkāsi, 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 Tenkāsi

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kadayanallur 12.9 kmN 192 m (630 ft) +27 m
Puliyankudi 25.6 kmN 207 m (679 ft) +42 m
Sankarankoil 33.8 kmNE 148 m (486 ft) −17 m

Where Tenkāsi is

Latitude 8.9590214, longitude 77.3129383. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tenkāsi elevation: 165 m (541 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 Tenkāsi'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 170 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.