Elevation of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Kota Kinabalu's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. Wikidata records 5 m.

Also written: Jesselton.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 275 m

Mean 34 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 275 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 52

among the towns of Sabah, and 532nd of 759 in Malaysia.

Nearest town

Kasigui

7.3 km to the S, at 20 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Kota Kinabalu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kota Kinabalu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 382 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 121 m at 14 km north to 154 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kota Kinabalu, 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.

Towns near Kota Kinabalu

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kasigui	7.3 km	S	20 m (66 ft)	+8 m
Donggongon	7.7 km	S	16 m (52 ft)	+4 m
Kepayan	8.1 km	SW	13 m (43 ft)	+1 m
Putatan	13 km	SW	4 m (13 ft)	−8 m
Kinarut	18.9 km	SW	14 m (46 ft)	+2 m

Peaks and passes near Kota Kinabalu

Castle Peak, peak at 612 m (2,008 ft), 23 km to the S — 600 m above the town.
Kaurau, peak at 521 m (1,709 ft), 8.6 km to the E — 509 m above the town.
Bukit Terian, peak at 332 m (1,089 ft), 20.6 km to the SE — 320 m above the town.

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

Where Kota Kinabalu is

Latitude 5.976474, longitude 116.115777. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Kota Kinabalu'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.