Elevation of Almaty, Kazakhstan

Almaty, Kazakhstan is 788 m (2,585 ft) above sea level.

Almaty's height from sea level is 788 metres, or 2,585 feet. GeoNames reads 783 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 893 m.

Also written: Almatı Alma-Ata Алматы.

Ground within 4 km

722 m – 984 m

Mean 806 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 262 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 31

among the towns of Almaty, and 20th of 334 in Kazakhstan.

Nearest town

Rudnichniy

0 km to the N, at 788 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Almaty

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Almaty; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 758 m at 12 km west to 1,166 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 674 m at 12 km north to 1,415 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Almaty, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 52 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 Almaty

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rudnichniy	0 km	N	788 m (2,585 ft)	same
Zhansugurov	6.8 km	N	706 m (2,316 ft)	−82 m
Boralday	12.5 km	N	683 m (2,241 ft)	−105 m
Pervomayskiy	13 km	N	670 m (2,198 ft)	−118 m
Karasay	24.3 km	W	865 m (2,838 ft)	+77 m

Peaks and passes near Almaty

Pioneer peak, peak at 4,031 m (13,225 ft), 24.6 km to the SE — 3,243 m above the town.
Abay peak, peak at 4,010 m (13,156 ft), 23.6 km to the SE — 3,222 m above the town.
Tïtov peak, peak at 3,871 m (12,700 ft), 22.9 km to the SE — 3,083 m above the town.
Pereval Talgarskiy, pass at 3,200 m (10,499 ft), 22.4 km to the SE.

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

Where Almaty is

Latitude 43.255058, longitude 76.912628. 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 Almaty'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 783 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.