Elevation of Bichi, Kano, Nigeria

Bichi, Kano, Nigeria is 528 m (1,732 ft) above sea level.

Bichi's height from sea level is 528 metres, or 1,732 feet. GeoNames reads 533 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

492 m – 543 m

Mean 520 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 47

among the towns of Kano, and 123rd of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

14.4 km to the SW, at 516 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Bichi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bichi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

550460WE28.4 km
West to east: from 540 m at 14 km west to 467 m at 14 km east.
550460NS28.4 km
North to south: from 508 m at 14 km north to 485 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bichi, 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 Bichi

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bagwai 14.4 kmSW 516 m (1,693 ft) −12 m
Dawakin Tofa 17.5 kmSE 483 m (1,585 ft) −45 m
Kunya 31.5 kmE 457 m (1,499 ft) −71 m
Shanomo 33.7 kmSW 582 m (1,909 ft) +54 m
Garo 34.3 kmSW 531 m (1,742 ft) +3 m

Peaks and passes near Bichi

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

Where Bichi is

Latitude 12.2341667, longitude 8.2411111. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bichi elevation: 528 m (1,732 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 Bichi'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 533 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.