Elevation of Chifu, Niger, Nigeria

Chifu, Niger, Nigeria is 268 m (879 ft) above sea level.

Chifu's height from sea level is 268 metres, or 879 feet. GeoNames reads 300 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

262 m – 341 m

Mean 287 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 79 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 29

among the towns of Niger, and 568th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

35 km to the N, at 361 m, 93 m higher.

Cross-section through Chifu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chifu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

329242WE28.5 km
West to east: from 248 m at 14 km west to 323 m at 14 km east.
329242NS28.5 km
North to south: from 298 m at 14 km north to 308 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Chifu, 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 Chifu

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rijau 35 kmN 361 m (1,184 ft) +93 m

Where Chifu is

Latitude 10.8, longitude 5.36. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chifu elevation: 268 m (879 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 Chifu'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 300 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.