Elevation of Likoma, Malawi

Likoma, Malawi is 524 m (1,719 ft) above sea level.

Likoma's height from sea level is 524 metres, or 1,719 feet. GeoNames reads 506 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

476 m – 558 m

Mean 483 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 82 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 36

among the towns of Malawi with a reading.

Cross-section through Likoma

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Likoma; the vertical scale is the same on both.

657462WE28.4 km
West to east: from 476 m at 14 km west to 479 m at 14 km east.
657462NS28.4 km
North to south: from 476 m at 14 km north to 642 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Likoma, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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.

Peaks and passes near Likoma

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

Where Likoma is

Latitude -12.0666667, longitude 34.7333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Likoma elevation: 524 m (1,719 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 Likoma'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 506 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.