Elevation of Ġūrīān, Herāt, Afghanistan

Ġūrīān, Herāt, Afghanistan is 792 m (2,598 ft) above sea level.

Ġūrīān's height from sea level is 792 metres, or 2,598 feet. GeoNames reads 796 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 790 m.

Also written: Gurian Guriyan Ghūriān Goryān Goryan Ghūrīān.

Ground within 5 km

783 m – 849 m

Mean 799 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 66 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 11

among the towns of Herāt, and 76th of 117 in Afghanistan.

Nearest town

Zendejān

24.8 km to the E, at 838 m, 46 m higher.

Cross-section through Ġūrīān

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ġūrīān; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 802 m at 13 km west to 818 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 829 m at 13 km north to 925 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Ġūrīān, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Ġūrīān

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Zendejān	24.8 km	E	838 m (2,749 ft)	+46 m
Tir Pol	33.8 km	NW	764 m (2,507 ft)	−28 m

Peaks and passes near Ġūrīān

Kōh-e Siyāh Kōh, hill at 1,098 m (3,602 ft), 19.3 km to the NE — 306 m above the town.
Kōh-e Tīr Pul, peak at 1,086 m (3,563 ft), 24.5 km to the NW — 294 m above the town.
Kōh-e Ḩalqahhā-ye Shah Bāsh, hill at 972 m (3,189 ft), 24 km to the N — 180 m above the town.
Gardanah-ye Kūwak, pass at 1,018 m (3,340 ft), 23.7 km to the W.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Ġūrīān is

Latitude 34.341728, longitude 61.47353. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Ġūrīān'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 796 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.