Elevation of Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia

Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia is 498 m (1,634 ft) above sea level.

Ranau's height from sea level is 498 metres, or 1,634 feet. GeoNames reads 570 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,176 m.

Ground within 5 km

427 m – 944 m

Mean 636 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 517 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 52

among the towns of Sabah, and 11th of 759 in Malaysia.

Nearest town

11.2 km to the NW, at 1,225 m, 727 m higher.

Cross-section through Ranau

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 Ranau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,933246WE28.7 km
West to east: from 831 m at 14 km west to 472 m at 14 km east.
1,933246NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,653 m at 14 km north to 859 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ranau, 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 Ranau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kundasang 11.2 kmNW 1,225 m (4,019 ft) +727 m

Peaks and passes near Ranau

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

Where Ranau is

Latitude 5.937051, longitude 116.6694851. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ranau elevation: 498 m (1,634 ft) above sea level

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 Ranau'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 570 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.