Elevation of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia is 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.

Kuching's height from sea level is 11 metres, or 36 feet. GeoNames reads 5 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 8 m.

Also written: Sarawak.

Ground within 5 km

3 m – 25 m

Mean 11 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 22 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 46

among the towns of Sarawak, and 545th of 759 in Malaysia.

Nearest town

Long Lama Bazaar

3 km to the N, at 17 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Kuching

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kuching; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 28 m at 14 km west to 7 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 3 m at 14 km north to 29 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kuching, 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 Kuching

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Long Lama Bazaar	3 km	N	17 m (56 ft)	+6 m
Sungai Maong Bazaar	3.1 km	N	10 m (33 ft)	−1 m
Kota Sentosa	6.9 km	S	19 m (62 ft)	+8 m
Batu Kawa Bazaar	8.9 km	W	10 m (33 ft)	−1 m
Kota Padawan	11.7 km	S	24 m (79 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Kuching

Gunung Serapi, peak at 911 m (2,989 ft), 17.8 km to the W — 900 m above the town.
Gunung Santubong, peak at 810 m (2,657 ft), 23.8 km to the N — 799 m above the town.
Gunung Berendang, peak at 550 m (1,804 ft), 19.3 km to the W — 539 m above the town.

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

Where Kuching is

Latitude 1.530976, longitude 110.3442199. 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 Kuching'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 5 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.