Elevation of Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia

Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

Tawau's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. Wikidata records 8 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 247 m

Mean 40 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 247 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 52

among the towns of Sabah, and 412th of 759 in Malaysia.

Cross-section through Tawau

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 Tawau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 44 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 375 m at 14 km north to 1 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tawau, 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.

Peaks and passes near Tawau

Gunung Lucia, peak at 1,201 m (3,940 ft), 21 km to the N — 1,178 m above the town.
Maria Peak, peak at 1,020 m (3,346 ft), 16.3 km to the N — 997 m above the town.
Mount Andrassy, hill at 655 m (2,149 ft), 8.8 km to the NE — 632 m above the town.

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

Where Tawau is

Latitude 4.282457, longitude 117.914787. 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 Tawau'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.