Elevation of Zah̨lah, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon

Zah̨lah, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon is 986 m (3,235 ft) above sea level.

Zah̨lah's height from sea level is 986 metres, or 3,235 feet. GeoNames reads 963 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,010 m.

Also written: Zahlah Zahlé زحلة.

Ground within 5 km

874 m – 1,598 m

Mean 1,076 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 724 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 26

among the towns of al-Biqa'a, and 18th of 74 in Lebanon.

Nearest town

Ta'labāyā

3.8 km to the W, at 1,213 m, 227 m higher.

Cross-section through Zah̨lah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Zah̨lah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,495 m at 13 km west to 953 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 2,386 m at 13 km north to 923 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Zah̨lah, 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 Zah̨lah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ta'labāyā	3.8 km	W	1,213 m (3,980 ft)	+227 m
Barr Ilyās	7.7 km	S	871 m (2,858 ft)	−115 m
H̨ušmuš	7.8 km	E	889 m (2,917 ft)	−97 m
'Ayn Baddīnā	9 km	NE	947 m (3,107 ft)	−39 m
Riyāq	10.2 km	E	928 m (3,045 ft)	−58 m

Peaks and passes near Zah̨lah

Chîr el Ahmar, peak at 2,593 m (8,507 ft), 12.1 km to the N — 1,607 m above the town.
Ghorfe El Frensewye, peak at 2,555 m (8,383 ft), 11.6 km to the N — 1,569 m above the town.
Mzâr Sannîne, peak at 2,463 m (8,081 ft), 14.3 km to the NW — 1,477 m above the town.

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

Where Zah̨lah is

Latitude 33.8462558, longitude 35.9019519. 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 Zah̨lah'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 963 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.