Find the elevation of any place on Earth
This elevation finder tells you how high above sea level any spot on Earth is. Click the map, search for a town, trailhead or peak, or use your current location, and you get the ground elevation in meters and feet with its coordinates. The shaded relief map makes ridges, valleys and plateaus easy to read, and there's a satellite view when you'd rather see the ground itself.
Switch to Profile mode to see how the land rises and falls along a route. Draw a path across the map or upload a GPX track from Strava, Garmin, Komoot or AllTrails, and the tool samples the terrain at regular intervals to build an elevation profile with total ascent and descent, the highest and lowest points and the distance. Hover the chart and a marker follows along the map, so you can see exactly where the big climb starts.
Elevations come from the open Terrain Tiles dataset on AWS, which stitches together SRTM, USGS 3DEP, ETOPO1 and other public elevation models. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you draw or upload is stored. Download the result as a PNG for a trip report, a race briefing or a geography lesson.
Frequently asked questions
What is my elevation right now?
Press My location and allow location access: the tool looks up the ground elevation under your position and shows it in meters and feet. You can also search for an address or click anywhere on the map. Phone GPS altitude is often off by 10–50 m, so a terrain model is usually the more reliable answer for the ground itself.
How do I make an elevation profile?
Switch to Profile, then click the map to draw your route point by point, or upload a GPX, KML or GeoJSON track. The tool samples the elevation at regular intervals along the path and draws the profile with distance on the bottom and elevation up the side. Hover the chart to see the exact spot on the map.
How is total ascent calculated?
Total ascent adds up every uphill stretch between consecutive samples, and total descent every downhill one, so a route that climbs 300 m, drops 100 m and climbs 200 m again has 500 m of ascent. Because the path is sampled from a terrain model, small bumps between samples aren't counted; GPS watches often report a bit more.
How accurate is the elevation?
Expect accuracy in the range of tens of meters. Elevations come from the open Terrain Tiles dataset (SRTM, USGS 3DEP, ETOPO1 and other public sources), read from a grid roughly 30–40 m across for single points and coarser for very long profiles. It's fine for hiking, cycling and planning, but not a substitute for survey data. Ocean depths come from a much coarser bathymetry model and are approximate.
Can I use it with my GPX file?
Yes. Upload a GPX track or route, a KML file or a GeoJSON line and the profile is computed from the terrain model along it. Elevations recorded in the file are ignored so every track is measured the same way. Nothing is uploaded to a server: the file is read in your browser.
Is the elevation finder free?
Yes, it's free with no account required, and you can download the map with the elevation or the profile as a PNG. To fly over the route in a 3D animated map video, open it in Mapimator Studio.