Elevation of Rā's-al-'Ayn, al-Janub, Lebanon

Rā's-al-'Ayn, al-Janub, Lebanon is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Rā's-al-'Ayn's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 17 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: رأس العين.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 217 m

Mean 51 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 217 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 17

among the towns of al-Janub, and 67th of 74 in Lebanon.

Nearest town

'Ayn Ba'āl

4.4 km to the E, at 131 m, 111 m higher.

Cross-section through Rā's-al-'Ayn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rā's-al-'Ayn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 318 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 419 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Rā's-al-'Ayn, 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 Rā's-al-'Ayn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
'Ayn Ba'āl	4.4 km	E	131 m (430 ft)	+111 m
Şūr	5.2 km	N	9 m (30 ft)	−11 m
Manşūrah	6.6 km	S	159 m (522 ft)	+139 m
Yāţir	12.8 km	SE	668 m (2,192 ft)	+648 m
an-Nāqūrah	14.5 km	SW	33 m (108 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Rā's-al-'Ayn

Chqif en Nahl, hill at 880 m (2,887 ft), 18.3 km to the SE — 860 m above the town.
Baaloûl, peak at 839 m (2,753 ft), 21.7 km to the E — 819 m above the town.
Khirbet Chalaaboun, hill at 837 m (2,746 ft), 21.1 km to the SE — 817 m above the town.

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

Where Rā's-al-'Ayn is

Latitude 33.228403, longitude 35.2236943. 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 Rā's-al-'Ayn'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 17 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.