Elevation of Mādabā, Jordan

Mādabā, Jordan is 783 m (2,569 ft) above sea level.

Mādabā's height from sea level is 783 metres, or 2,569 feet. GeoNames reads 790 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 763 m.

Also written: Madaba Ma'dabâ Ma'daba مادبا.

Ground within 5 km

725 m – 829 m

Mean 775 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 104 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 5

among the towns of Mādabā, and 57th of 142 in Jordan.

Nearest town

al-Ma'mūniyah

0 km to the N, at 783 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Mādabā

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 Mādabā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 310 m at 13 km west to 734 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 792 m at 13 km north to 636 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Mādabā, 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 Mādabā

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
al-Ma'mūniyah	0 km	N	783 m (2,569 ft)	same
Mā'īn	7.5 km	SW	840 m (2,756 ft)	+57 m
al-Jīzah ('Ammān)	14.9 km	E	705 m (2,313 ft)	−78 m
Mulayh̨	15.7 km	S	630 m (2,067 ft)	−153 m
Na'ūr ('Ammān)	18.2 km	N	810 m (2,657 ft)	+27 m

Peaks and passes near Mādabā

Rujm al Mi‘qar, hill at 835 m (2,740 ft), 9.1 km to the SW — 52 m above the town.
Qulaylāt Abū al ‘Udays, peak at 806 m (2,644 ft), 10.4 km to the SW — 23 m above the town.
Qullat al Ghūlah, peak at 805 m (2,641 ft), 7.2 km to the SW — 22 m above the town.

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

Where Mādabā is

Latitude 31.71954, longitude 35.794109. 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 Mādabā'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 790 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.