Elevation of al-Quşayr, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon

al-Quşayr, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon is 592 m (1,942 ft) above sea level.

al-Quşayr's height from sea level is 592 metres, or 1,942 feet. GeoNames reads 584 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: القصير.

Ground within 5 km

514 m – 1,043 m

Mean 647 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 529 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 26

among the towns of al-Biqa'a, and 40th of 74 in Lebanon.

Nearest town

al-Hirmil

10.7 km to the S, at 676 m, 84 m higher.

Cross-section through al-Quşayr

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-Quşayr; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,426 m at 13 km west to 529 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 535 m at 13 km north to 676 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around al-Quşayr, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 al-Quşayr

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
al-Hirmil	10.7 km	S	676 m (2,218 ft)	+84 m
al-Quşayr (Syria)	13 km	E	540 m (1,772 ft)	−52 m
Nah̨r	15.8 km	S	664 m (2,178 ft)	+72 m
al-Qubayyāt (aš-Šamal)	17.7 km	NW	546 m (1,791 ft)	−46 m
Ra's Ba'labakk	24.5 km	S	995 m (3,264 ft)	+403 m

Peaks and passes near al-Quşayr

Qornet Aaroûba, peak at 2,158 m (7,080 ft), 18.5 km to the W — 1,566 m above the town.
Harf el Knissé, peak at 2,088 m (6,850 ft), 18.8 km to the W — 1,496 m above the town.
Tallet Maaboûr el Abiad, peak at 2,083 m (6,834 ft), 17.4 km to the W — 1,491 m above the town.

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

Where al-Quşayr is

Latitude 34.48, longitude 36.44. 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 al-Quşayr'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 584 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.