Elevation of Nakuru, Rift Valley, Kenya

Nakuru, Rift Valley, Kenya is 1,803 m (5,915 ft) above sea level.

Nakuru's height from sea level is 1,803 metres, or 5,915 feet. GeoNames reads 1,802 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,850 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,755 m – 2,076 m

Mean 1,832 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 321 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 36

among the towns of Rift Valley, and 39th of 141 in Kenya.

Nearest town

Rongai

28.7 km to the NW, at 1,873 m, 70 m higher.

Cross-section through Nakuru

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 Nakuru; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,145 m at 14 km west to 1,984 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,815 m at 14 km north to 1,784 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Nakuru, 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 Nakuru

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rongai	28.7 km	NW	1,873 m (6,145 ft)	+70 m
Elburgon	29.3 km	W	2,398 m (7,867 ft)	+595 m
Gilgil (Central)	32.8 km	SE	2,023 m (6,637 ft)	+220 m
Ol Kalou (Central)	33.3 km	E	2,354 m (7,723 ft)	+551 m
Molo	39.1 km	W	2,469 m (8,100 ft)	+666 m

Where Nakuru is

Latitude -0.3030988, longitude 36.080026. 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 Nakuru'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 1,802 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.