Elevation of Kandara, Central, Kenya

Kandara, Central, Kenya is 1,624 m (5,328 ft) above sea level.

Kandara's height from sea level is 1,624 metres, or 5,328 feet. GeoNames reads 1,669 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,534 m – 1,731 m

Mean 1,630 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 197 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 19

among the towns of Central, and 57th of 141 in Kenya.

Nearest town

18.2 km to the SE, at 1,480 m, 144 m lower.

Cross-section through Kandara

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kandara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,8531,352WE28.8 km
West to east: from 1,810 m at 14 km west to 1,387 m at 14 km east.
1,8531,352NS28.8 km
North to south: from 1,579 m at 14 km north to 1,553 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kandara, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Kandara

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Thika 18.2 kmSE 1,480 m (4,856 ft) −144 m
Maragua 18.3 kmNE 1,357 m (4,452 ft) −267 m
Makuyu 20.6 kmE 1,384 m (4,541 ft) −240 m
Kangema 23.9 kmN 1,774 m (5,820 ft) +150 m
Murang'a 26.9 kmNE 1,232 m (4,042 ft) −392 m

Where Kandara is

Latitude -0.8964137, longitude 37.0021177. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kandara elevation: 1,624 m (5,328 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 Kandara'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 1,669 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.