Elevation of Herāt, Afghanistan

Herāt, Afghanistan is 927 m (3,041 ft) above sea level.

Herāt's height from sea level is 927 metres, or 3,041 feet. GeoNames reads 927 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 920 m.

Also written: هرات.

Ground within 5 km

915 m – 1,195 m

Mean 955 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 280 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 11

among the towns of Herāt, and 66th of 117 in Afghanistan.

Nearest town

Čahār Burjak

11.9 km to the S, at 955 m, 28 m higher.

Cross-section through Herāt

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 Herāt; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 899 m at 13 km west to 985 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,127 m at 13 km north to 968 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Herāt, 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 Herāt

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Čahār Burjak (Nimruz)	11.9 km	S	955 m (3,133 ft)	+28 m
Karuẖ	38.7 km	NE	1,352 m (4,436 ft)	+425 m

Peaks and passes near Herāt

Kōh-e Zīārat, peak at 1,649 m (5,410 ft), 15.5 km to the NW — 722 m above the town.
Kōh-e Sang Kōtal, peak at 1,465 m (4,806 ft), 21.5 km to the NW — 538 m above the town.
Kōh-e Ḩişār-e Ghulāmān, peak at 1,417 m (4,649 ft), 23.1 km to the NE — 490 m above the town.
Kōtal-e Surkh, pass at 1,161 m (3,809 ft), 12.6 km to the N.

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

Where Herāt is

Latitude 34.3419444, longitude 62.2030556. 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 Herāt'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 927 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.