Elevation of Walvis Bay, Erongo, Namibia

Walvis Bay, Erongo, Namibia is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Walvis Bay's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 6 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 12 m

Mean 4 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 12 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 9

among the towns of Erongo, and 40th of 40 in Namibia.

Nearest town

Swakopmund

30.6 km to the N, at 17 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Walvis Bay

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Walvis Bay; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 83 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 27 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Walvis Bay, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 58 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 Walvis Bay

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Swakopmund	30.6 km	N	17 m (56 ft)	+11 m

Peaks and passes near Walvis Bay

Rooikop, hill at 148 m (486 ft), 15.9 km to the E — 142 m above the town.
Swartkop, hill at 111 m (364 ft), 12.4 km to the E — 105 m above the town.

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

Where Walvis Bay is

Latitude -22.948601, longitude 14.50882. 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 Walvis Bay'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 6 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.