Elevation of Awka, Anambra, Nigeria

Awka, Anambra, Nigeria is 96 m (315 ft) above sea level.

Awka's height from sea level is 96 metres, or 315 feet. GeoNames reads 99 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Akwa Akwa-Ikom.

Ground within 5 km

52 m – 144 m

Mean 94 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 92 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 8

among the towns of Anambra, and 804th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

25.9 km to the SE, at 168 m, 72 m higher.

Cross-section through Awka

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 Awka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

23922WE28.7 km
West to east: from 159 m at 14 km west to 67 m at 14 km east.
23922NS28.7 km
North to south: from 38 m at 14 km north to 143 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Awka, 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 Awka

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Agbaliji 25.9 kmSE 168 m (551 ft) +72 m
Nnewi 27 kmSW 156 m (512 ft) +60 m
Onitsha 31.8 kmW 68 m (223 ft) −28 m
Enugu Umunze 32.4 kmSE 194 m (636 ft) +98 m
Asaba (Delta) 35.2 kmW 31 m (102 ft) −65 m

Where Awka is

Latitude 6.2069444, longitude 7.0677778. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Awka elevation: 96 m (315 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 Awka'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 99 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.