Elevation of Kwale, Coast, Kenya

Kwale, Coast, Kenya is 386 m (1,266 ft) above sea level.

Kwale's height from sea level is 386 metres, or 1,266 feet. GeoNames reads 403 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

108 m – 432 m

Mean 263 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 324 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 17

among the towns of Coast, and 124th of 141 in Kenya.

Nearest town

16.2 km to the W, at 190 m, 196 m lower.

Cross-section through Kwale

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kwale; the vertical scale is the same on both.

43519WE28.7 km
West to east: from 224 m at 14 km west to 48 m at 14 km east.
43519NS28.7 km
North to south: from 170 m at 14 km north to 126 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kwale, 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 Kwale

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kinango 16.2 kmW 190 m (623 ft) −196 m
Mombasa 27.3 kmNE 16 m (52 ft) −370 m
Gazi 28.3 kmS 17 m (56 ft) −369 m
Sawasawa 32.9 kmS 16 m (52 ft) −370 m
Mariakani 34.6 kmN 202 m (663 ft) −184 m

Where Kwale is

Latitude -4.1744444, longitude 39.4602778. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kwale elevation: 386 m (1,266 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 Kwale'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 403 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.