Elevation of Dan Musa, Katsina, Nigeria

Dan Musa, Katsina, Nigeria is 489 m (1,604 ft) above sea level.

Dan Musa's height from sea level is 489 metres, or 1,604 feet. GeoNames reads 492 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

456 m – 509 m

Mean 485 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 35

among the towns of Katsina, and 159th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

Mara Zamfarawa

8.3 km to the SW, at 491 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Dan Musa

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 Dan Musa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 480 m at 14 km west to 514 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 497 m at 14 km north to 510 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Dan Musa, 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 Dan Musa

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mara Zamfarawa	8.3 km	SW	491 m (1,611 ft)	+2 m
Runka	21.6 km	N	496 m (1,627 ft)	+7 m
Dutsin Ma	27.9 km	NE	543 m (1,781 ft)	+54 m
Dorka (Zamfara)	33.1 km	W	452 m (1,483 ft)	−37 m
Matazu	37.6 km	E	538 m (1,765 ft)	+49 m

Peaks and passes near Dan Musa

Birchi Hill, hill at 696 m (2,283 ft), 12.4 km to the W — 207 m above the town.
Runka Hill, hill at 637 m (2,090 ft), 23 km to the N — 148 m above the town.
Dutsin Barwa, hill at 594 m (1,949 ft), 18.1 km to the N — 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 Dan Musa is

Latitude 12.26, longitude 7.33. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Dan Musa'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 492 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.