Elevation of Malau, Kedah, Malaysia

Malau, Kedah, Malaysia is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

Malau's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 31 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

27 m – 484 m

Mean 69 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 457 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 63

among the towns of Kedah, and 234th of 759 in Malaysia.

Nearest town

Tawar

9 km to the N, at 51 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through Malau

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 Malau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 25 m at 14 km west to 676 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 43 m at 14 km north to 216 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Malau, 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 Malau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tawar	9 km	N	51 m (167 ft)	+3 m
Merbau Pulas	11.7 km	NW	17 m (56 ft)	−31 m
Sungai Karangan	12.6 km	W	23 m (75 ft)	−25 m
Karangan	12.7 km	SW	50 m (164 ft)	+2 m
Kuala Ketil	13.4 km	NW	23 m (75 ft)	−25 m

Peaks and passes near Malau

Mount Bintang, peak at 1,862 m (6,109 ft), 17.3 km to the SE — 1,814 m above the town.
Gunung Bintang Utara, peak at 1,838 m (6,030 ft), 15.7 km to the E — 1,790 m above the town.
Gunung Bintang South, peak at 1,561 m (5,121 ft), 19.8 km to the SE — 1,513 m above the town.

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

Where Malau is

Latitude 5.5140281, longitude 100.7351519. 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 Malau'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 31 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.