Elevation of Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel is 778 m (2,552 ft) above sea level.

Jerusalem's height from sea level is 778 metres, or 2,552 feet. GeoNames reads 786 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 754 m.

Also written: Yerushalayim al-Quds Jerusalén Jérusalem.

Ground within 5 km

583 m – 824 m

Mean 731 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 241 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 6

among the towns of Jerusalem, and 10th of 232 in Israel.

Nearest town

Al 'Aza Camp

0.5 km to the N, at 778 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Jerusalem

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Jerusalem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 714 m at 13 km west to 264 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 833 m at 13 km north to 720 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Jerusalem, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Jerusalem

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Al 'Aza Camp (Palestine)	0.5 km	N	778 m (2,552 ft)	same
Tura al Gharbiya (Palestine)	1.1 km	NE	775 m (2,543 ft)	−3 m
Kafr 'Abbush (Palestine)	1.4 km	NE	791 m (2,595 ft)	+13 m
al-'Abdaliyah (Jordan)	3.4 km	E	774 m (2,539 ft)	−4 m
Abū Dīs (Palestine)	4.2 km	E	661 m (2,169 ft)	−117 m

Peaks and passes near Jerusalem

Mount Nabi Yunis, peak at 1,030 m (3,379 ft), 23.6 km to the SW — 252 m above the town.
Mount Scopus, peak at 826 m (2,710 ft), 4 km to the NE — 48 m above the town.
Mount of Olives, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 3.4 km to the NE — 40 m above the town.

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

Where Jerusalem is

Latitude 31.768318, longitude 35.213711. 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 Jerusalem'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 786 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.