Elevation of Şammā, Irbid, Jordan

Şammā, Irbid, Jordan is 306 m (1,004 ft) above sea level.

Şammā's height from sea level is 306 metres, or 1,004 feet. GeoNames reads 320 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 325 m.

Also written: Samma صما.

Ground within 5 km

-53 m – 411 m

Mean 254 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 464 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

34th of 42

among the towns of Irbid, and 124th of 142 in Jordan.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the E, at 346 m, 40 m higher.

Cross-section through Şammā

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Şammā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

583-327WE26.5 km
West to east: from -229 m at 13 km west to 447 m at 13 km east.
583-327NS26.5 km
North to south: from -33 m at 13 km north to 520 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Şammā, 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 Şammā

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Qumaym 3.7 kmE 346 m (1,135 ft) +40 m
Kafr Asad 4.4 kmNE 272 m (892 ft) −34 m
aţ-Ţayyibah 4.4 kmSE 368 m (1,207 ft) +62 m
Duwaqarah 5 kmNE 294 m (965 ft) −12 m
Dayr as-Si'nah 6.9 kmSE 452 m (1,483 ft) +146 m

Where Şammā is

Latitude 32.57, longitude 35.69. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Şammā elevation: 306 m (1,004 ft) above sea level

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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 Şammā'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 320 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.