Elevation of Balikpapan, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia

Balikpapan, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia is 64 m (210 ft) above sea level.

Balikpapan's height from sea level is 64 metres, or 210 feet. GeoNames reads 67 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 64 m

Mean 11 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 64 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 7

among the towns of Kalimantan Timur, and 218th of 518 in Indonesia.

Cross-section through Balikpapan

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Balikpapan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

70-6WE28.8 km
West to east: from 35 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
70-6NS28.8 km
North to south: from 30 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Balikpapan, 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.

Where Balikpapan is

Latitude -1.2635389, longitude 116.8278833. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Balikpapan elevation: 64 m (210 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 Balikpapan'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 67 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.