Elevation of Balẖ, Afghanistan

Balẖ, Afghanistan is 346 m (1,135 ft) above sea level.

Balẖ's height from sea level is 346 metres, or 1,135 feet. GeoNames reads 348 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 365 m.

Also written: Balkh Wazirabad بلخ.

Ground within 5 km

334 m – 370 m

Mean 348 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 36 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 6

among the towns of Balẖ, and 109th of 117 in Afghanistan.

Nearest town

Mazār-e Šarīf

20.3 km to the E, at 370 m, 24 m higher.

Cross-section through Balẖ

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Balẖ; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 339 m at 13 km west to 342 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 325 m at 13 km north to 481 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Balẖ, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Balẖ

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mazār-e Šarīf	20.3 km	E	370 m (1,214 ft)	+24 m
Dawlātābād	27.5 km	N	311 m (1,020 ft)	−35 m
Qarchi Gak	32.7 km	N	305 m (1,001 ft)	−41 m

Where Balẖ is

Latitude 36.750118, longitude 66.897842. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Balẖ'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 348 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.