Elevation of Maseru, Lesotho

Maseru, Lesotho is 1,545 m (5,069 ft) above sea level.

Maseru's height from sea level is 1,545 metres, or 5,069 feet. GeoNames reads 1,552 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,600 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,489 m – 1,774 m

Mean 1,554 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 285 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 11

among the towns of Lesotho with a reading.

Nearest town

Ladybrand

13.5 km to the N, at 1,574 m, 29 m higher.

Cross-section through Maseru

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Maseru; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,635 m at 13 km west to 1,780 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,541 m at 13 km north to 1,594 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Maseru, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Maseru

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ladybrand (South Africa)	13.5 km	N	1,574 m (5,164 ft)	+29 m
Teyateyaneng (Berea)	31 km	NE	1,670 m (5,479 ft)	+125 m

Peaks and passes near Maseru

Thaba Bosiu, peak at 1,804 m (5,919 ft), 20.3 km to the E — 259 m above the town.
Qoaling, peak at 1,775 m (5,823 ft), 3.1 km to the SE — 230 m above the town.

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

Where Maseru is

Latitude -29.3141863, longitude 27.4832633. 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 Maseru'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 1,552 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.