Elevation of Padang Panjang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia

Padang Panjang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia is 908 m (2,979 ft) above sea level.

Padang Panjang's height from sea level is 908 metres, or 2,979 feet. GeoNames reads 824 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 824 m.

Also written: Padangpanjang Padangpanjan.

Ground within 5 km

619 m – 2,202 m

Mean 1,028 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,583 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 8

among the towns of Sumatera Barat, and 12th of 518 in Indonesia.

Nearest town

20.7 km to the N, at 886 m, 22 m lower.

Cross-section through Padang Panjang

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 Panjang; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,856574WE28.8 km
West to east: from 1,307 m at 14 km west to 697 m at 14 km east.
1,856574NS28.8 km
North to south: from 968 m at 14 km north to 1,274 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Padang Panjang, 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 Panjang

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bukit Tinggi 20.7 kmN 886 m (2,907 ft) −22 m
Payakumbuh 34.1 kmNE 514 m (1,686 ft) −394 m
Pariaman 38.6 kmSW 7 m (23 ft) −901 m

Peaks and passes near Padang Panjang

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

Where Padang Panjang is

Latitude -0.45, longitude 100.4166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Padang Panjang elevation: 908 m (2,979 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 Padang Panjang'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 824 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.