Elevation finder

Press Use my location and the page shows the elevation where you stand, in metres and feet, with your coordinates. You can also search an address, type latitude and longitude, or click anywhere on the map. Switch to Profile to draw a line or open a GPX, KML or GeoJSON track and get its elevation profile, total climb and descent, and the lowest and highest points. Every value comes from the Copernicus DEM, a 30 m elevation model of the whole planet.

Free, no account. Your location is asked for only when you press the button.

1. Press Use my location and allow the browser to share it, or search an address, or click the map.
2. Read the elevation in metres and feet with the coordinates. Copy it, copy a link that reopens the same point, or download every point you looked up as CSV.
3. For a route, switch to Profile, click points along it or open a GPX or KML, and download the profile as CSV or as a 3D GeoJSON line.

Every value is read from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30, the elevation model of the European Space Agency, made from TanDEM-X radar and covering all land on Earth with cells of about 30 m. Heights are above mean sea level (the EGM2008 geoid). Where GLO-30 has no tile, the coarser GLO-90 (90 m) answers.

The model is accurate to about 4 m vertically in most places (its specification: better than 4 m for 90 percent of points). It is a surface model: it measures the top of what stands on the ground, so a point on a roof or in a forest reads a few metres to tens of metres above the bare ground. In open land and mountains it follows the terrain closely.

Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (c) DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and (c) Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Copernicus DEM licence

The line is cut into up to 512 points at equal distances, and each gets the elevation of the model there. Lines up to about 30 km use the full 30 m grid; longer lines read a coarser level of the same model (60 to 250 m cells), so a 200 km profile still answers in a second or two. Climb and descent add up every rise and every drop between neighbouring points, so they can read lower than a watch that records every metre on a tight switchback.

The GeoJSON export is a 3D line: QGIS reads its Z values directly, and the Elevation Profile panel (QGIS 3.26 and later) can draw it. For the terrain of a whole area, load the Copernicus DEM as a raster and use Raster, Analysis, Hillshade or Contour. AI Agent does that from one sentence: it loads the elevation for your view, adds the hillshade and draws contours.

• No depths: the sea reads 0 m. Lakes read their water surface.
• Buildings and trees count, as in any surface model.
• Profiles up to 500 km and 512 points.
• About 90 reads a minute per visitor, so the service stays free for everyone.

Press Use my location at the top of the page. Your browser asks for permission, then the page shows the elevation where you stand in metres and feet, read from the Copernicus 30 m elevation model. Indoors, a phone may place you a few tens of metres away, which matters only on a steep slope.

Usually within about 4 m in open terrain, the specification of the Copernicus DEM GLO-30. On a roof or in a forest the value is the top of the building or the canopy, so it can read several metres to tens of metres above the ground.

GPS altitude is less precise than GPS position, often off by 10 to 30 m, and many phones report it above the WGS 84 ellipsoid rather than sea level, which differs by up to 100 m depending on the region. Barometric altimeters drift with the weather. A map elevation does not move with the satellites or the weather.

Switch to Profile and press Open a track (GPX, KML or GeoJSON), or drop the file on the map. The longest track in the file becomes the profile, with its length, total climb and descent, lowest and highest point, and a CSV or 3D GeoJSON to download. The file is read in your browser; only the line goes to our server.

Elevation is the height of the ground above sea level. Altitude is the height of something above sea level, like an aircraft or a balloon. On the ground they are the same number, which is why both words are used for this page.

One foot is exactly 0.3048 m, so divide metres by 0.3048, or multiply by about 3.281. The page shows both: 1,000 m is 3,281 ft.

Yes, also commercially. The Copernicus DEM is free to use and share under the Copernicus licence, as long as you credit it: Copernicus DEM GLO-30, DLR and Airbus, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

No. The browser shares it only when you press the button, and the coordinates are sent to our server only to read the elevation. There is no account, and the page address carries the point only so you can share it.