The structure of a graphene monolayer on Ir(111) has been investigated in situ in the growth chamber by surface x-ray diffraction including the specular rod, which allows disentangling the effect of the sample roughness from that of the nanorippling of graphene and iridium along the moir-like pattern between graphene and Ir(111). Accordingly we are able to provide precise estimates of the undulation associated with this nanorippling, which is small in this weakly interacting graphene/metal system and thus proved difficult to assess in the past. The nanoripplings of graphene and iridium are found in phase, i.e. the in-plane position of their height maxima coincide, but the amplitude of the height modulation is much larger for graphene (0.379 ± 0.044Å) than, e.g., for the topmost Ir layer (0.017 ± 0.002Å). The average graphene-Ir distance is found to be 3.38 ± 0.04Å.Graphene, a monoatomic layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, has been investigated thoroughly in the past ten years because of its exceptional properties, which hold promises for numerous applications.1 Transition metal surfaces form a broad family of substrates for the growth of large area, high quality graphene.2 New properties can be induced in graphene through the interaction with the substrate, e.g. electronic bandgaps, 3 spin-polarization 4 and superconductivity.5 In most graphene-on-metal systems, the interaction is modulated at the nanoscale, due to lattice mismatch between graphene and the metal, which results in twodimensional patterns with periodicity of the order of nanometers, often referred to as "moirs", following an analogy with the beating of optical waves through two mismatched periodic lattices (e.g. tissue veils). Knowledge on the topographic properties of these moirs, i.e. the average graphene-metal distance, and the perpendicular-to-the-surface amplitude of the graphene and metal undulations across the moir, is desirable in view of characterizing the interaction and rationalizing the other properties.