Elevation of Bişkek, Kyrgyzstan

Bişkek, Kyrgyzstan is 764 m (2,507 ft) above sea level.

Bişkek's height from sea level is 764 metres, or 2,507 feet. GeoNames reads 767 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 750 m.

Ground within 4 km

699 m – 884 m

Mean 769 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 185 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 34

among the towns of Kyrgyzstan with a reading.

Nearest town

18.2 km to the W, at 805 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through Bişkek

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 Bişkek; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,136640WE24.9 km
West to east: from 736 m at 12 km west to 746 m at 12 km east.
1,136640NS24.9 km
North to south: from 686 m at 12 km north to 1,101 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Bişkek, 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 Bişkek

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ak-Suu (Çuy) 18.2 kmW 805 m (2,641 ft) +41 m
Georgiyevka (Kazakhstan) 21 kmNE 627 m (2,057 ft) −137 m
Kant (Çuy) 21.4 kmE 745 m (2,444 ft) −19 m
Krasnooktyabrskiy (Çuy) 21.7 kmW 743 m (2,438 ft) −21 m

Where Bişkek is

Latitude 42.870022, longitude 74.587883. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bişkek elevation: 764 m (2,507 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 Bişkek'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 767 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.