Elevation of Padang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia

Padang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Padang's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 333 m

Mean 19 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 333 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 8

among the towns of Sumatera Barat, and 469th of 518 in Indonesia.

Nearest town

Solok

36.6 km to the NE, at 388 m, 383 m higher.

Cross-section through Padang

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 Padang; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 230 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 10 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Padang, 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 Padang

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Solok	36.6 km	NE	388 m (1,273 ft)	+383 m

Peaks and passes near Padang

Gunung Gadut, peak at 1,859 m (6,099 ft), 21.2 km to the E — 1,854 m above the town.
Bukit Balang, peak at 1,314 m (4,311 ft), 18.3 km to the NE — 1,309 m above the town.
Bukit Karabang, peak at 1,126 m (3,694 ft), 21.3 km to the N — 1,121 m above the town.

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

Where Padang is

Latitude -0.95373, longitude 100.351997. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Padang'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 6 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.