Elevation of Bau, Sarawak, Malaysia

Bau, Sarawak, Malaysia is 58 m (190 ft) above sea level.

Bau's height from sea level is 58 metres, or 190 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

16 m – 271 m

Mean 53 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 255 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 46

among the towns of Sarawak, and 181st of 759 in Malaysia.

Nearest town

15.5 km to the NE, at 10 m, 48 m lower.

Cross-section through Bau

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 Bau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

478-14WE28.8 km
West to east: from 44 m at 14 km west to 30 m at 14 km east.
478-14NS28.8 km
North to south: from 121 m at 14 km north to 444 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bau, 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 Bau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Batu Kawa Bazaar 15.5 kmNE 10 m (33 ft) −48 m
Kota Padawan 18.4 kmE 24 m (79 ft) −34 m
Kota Sentosa 19.8 kmE 19 m (62 ft) −39 m
Kuching 23.9 kmNE 11 m (36 ft) −47 m
Long Lama Bazaar 25.4 kmNE 17 m (56 ft) −41 m

Peaks and passes near Bau

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

Where Bau is

Latitude 1.41797, longitude 110.1614321. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bau elevation: 58 m (190 ft) above sea level

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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 Bau'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 21 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.