What Is My Elevation?
Tap the button to see how high above sea level you are standing right now, or type a city or address to look up its elevation.
Also see: What county am I in? · Full location tool with map, GPS coordinates and sharing
Questions
How do I find my elevation?
Tap "Use my location" and allow location access. The tool reads your GPS position and looks up the ground elevation at that point in a global terrain model, in feet and metres. You can also type a city or street address.
How accurate is it?
The terrain model has a 90-metre grid and a vertical error of a few metres on open ground. Your phone position adds some horizontal error, which matters on steep slopes. Treat the result as accurate to roughly 5–15 m (15–50 ft) in most places.
Why does my phone compass or GPS app show a different altitude?
GPS altitude is measured from satellites, relative to a mathematical ellipsoid, and is usually off by 10–50 m. Phone barometers measure air pressure and drift with the weather. This tool uses mapped ground height above mean sea level instead.
Is this the height of my floor or of the plane?
No. It is the ground elevation at your coordinates. On the 20th floor of a building it still shows the ground height; add about 3 m (10 ft) per floor.
How do I convert feet to metres?
Multiply feet by 0.3048 to get metres, or metres by 3.28084 to get feet. Both are shown above.
Is my location stored?
No. Your position is used only in your browser for the lookup and is not saved by us.
How it works
Your browser asks for your position (only after you tap the button). The coordinates are sent to the Open-Meteo elevation service, which reads a 90-metre global terrain model (Copernicus DEM), and to Apple Maps for the place name. The number is the height of the ground at that point above mean sea level, not the floor you are on or the altitude of a plane. A phone GPS reports its own altitude with an error of 10–50 m, so a terrain-model lookup is usually more reliable on the ground. On a mountain peak, a cliff or a bridge the 90-metre grid can differ from the true spot by tens of metres.