Elevation of Tangier, Tangier-Tétouan, Morocco

Tangier, Tangier-Tétouan, Morocco is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Tangier's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 56 m.

Also written: Ţanjah Tanger Tangiers Tánger طنجة.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 91 m

Mean 28 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 91 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 14

among the towns of Tangier-Tétouan, and 248th of 270 in Morocco.

Nearest town

26.5 km to the S, at 134 m, 115 m higher.

Cross-section through Tangier

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tangier; the vertical scale is the same on both.

423-32WE26 km
West to east: from 37 m at 13 km west to 128 m at 13 km east.
423-32NS26 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 13 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Tangier, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Tangier

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dar Chaoui 26.5 kmS 134 m (440 ft) +115 m
Tarifa (Spain) 32.6 kmNE 14 m (46 ft) −5 m
Assilah 39.5 kmSW 11 m (36 ft) −8 m
Fnidq 39.9 kmE 40 m (131 ft) +21 m

Peaks and passes near Tangier

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

Where Tangier is

Latitude 35.7666667, longitude -5.8. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tangier elevation: 19 m (62 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 Tangier'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 20 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.