Elevation of Gano, Kano, Nigeria

Gano, Kano, Nigeria is 440 m (1,444 ft) above sea level.

Gano's height from sea level is 440 metres, or 1,444 feet. GeoNames reads 446 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

421 m – 466 m

Mean 435 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 45 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 47

among the towns of Kano, and 228th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

10.9 km to the SW, at 443 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through Gano

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 Gano; the vertical scale is the same on both.

468407WE28.5 km
West to east: from 437 m at 14 km west to 409 m at 14 km east.
468407NS28.5 km
North to south: from 430 m at 14 km north to 447 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gano, 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 Gano

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tsakuwa 10.9 kmSW 443 m (1,453 ft) +3 m
Wudil 12 kmE 419 m (1,375 ft) −21 m
Dawaki 14.8 kmW 455 m (1,493 ft) +15 m
Kumurya 14.8 kmS 448 m (1,470 ft) +8 m
Barkun 22.8 kmSW 457 m (1,499 ft) +17 m

Where Gano is

Latitude 11.82728, longitude 8.734292. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gano elevation: 440 m (1,444 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 Gano'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 446 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.