Elevation of Thyolo, Malawi

Thyolo, Malawi is 923 m (3,028 ft) above sea level.

Thyolo's height from sea level is 923 metres, or 3,028 feet. GeoNames reads 912 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Cholo.

Ground within 5 km

744 m – 1,092 m

Mean 904 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 348 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 36

among the towns of Malawi with a reading.

Nearest town

18 km to the E, at 688 m, 235 m lower.

Cross-section through Thyolo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Thyolo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,407665WE28.2 km
West to east: from 862 m at 14 km west to 717 m at 14 km east.
1,407665NS28.2 km
North to south: from 971 m at 14 km north to 819 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Thyolo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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 Thyolo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Luchenza 18 kmE 688 m (2,257 ft) −235 m
Blantyre (Blantyre City) 34.6 kmNW 1,038 m (3,406 ft) +115 m
Chikwawa (Chikwawa) 36.5 kmW 106 m (348 ft) −817 m
Mulanje (Mulanje) 38.6 kmE 628 m (2,060 ft) −295 m

Where Thyolo is

Latitude -16.069257, longitude 35.1406293. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Thyolo elevation: 923 m (3,028 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 Thyolo'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 912 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.