Elevation of Kūhestān, Herāt, Afghanistan

Kūhestān, Herāt, Afghanistan is 738 m (2,421 ft) above sea level.

Kūhestān's height from sea level is 738 metres, or 2,421 feet. GeoNames reads 740 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 740 m.

Also written: Kohsān.

Ground within 5 km

725 m – 816 m

Mean 749 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 91 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 11

among the towns of Herāt, and 79th of 117 in Afghanistan.

Nearest town

Eslām Qal'eh

8.4 km to the W, at 732 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Kūhestān

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kūhestān; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 733 m at 13 km west to 787 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 742 m at 13 km north to 991 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Kūhestān, 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 Kūhestān

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Eslām Qal'eh	8.4 km	W	732 m (2,402 ft)	−6 m
Tir Pol	9.3 km	SE	764 m (2,507 ft)	+26 m
Kārīz (Iran)	39.1 km	NW	783 m (2,569 ft)	+45 m
Tāybād (Iran)	39.9 km	W	811 m (2,661 ft)	+73 m

Peaks and passes near Kūhestān

Kōh-e Chāh Zīrak, hill at 1,095 m (3,593 ft), 18.7 km to the S — 357 m above the town.
Kōh-e Tīr Pul, peak at 1,086 m (3,563 ft), 18.6 km to the SE — 348 m above the town.
Kōh-e Surkh Darah, hill at 1,054 m (3,458 ft), 19.6 km to the SW — 316 m above the town.

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

Where Kūhestān is

Latitude 34.65554, longitude 61.199471. 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 Kūhestān'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 740 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.