Elevation of Gaya, Kano, Nigeria

Gaya, Kano, Nigeria is 435 m (1,427 ft) above sea level.

Gaya's height from sea level is 435 metres, or 1,427 feet. GeoNames reads 437 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

414 m – 444 m

Mean 428 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 30 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

44th of 47

among the towns of Kano, and 237th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

12.6 km to the N, at 427 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through Gaya

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 Gaya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

454393WE28.5 km
West to east: from 413 m at 14 km west to 410 m at 14 km east.
454393NS28.5 km
North to south: from 413 m at 14 km north to 439 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gaya, 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 Gaya

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ajingi (Jigawa) 12.6 kmN 427 m (1,401 ft) −8 m
Wudil 19.5 kmW 419 m (1,375 ft) −16 m
Albasu 25 kmSE 440 m (1,444 ft) +5 m
Garko 25.6 kmSW 463 m (1,519 ft) +28 m
Gano 29.8 kmW 440 m (1,444 ft) +5 m

Where Gaya is

Latitude 11.85593, longitude 9.00681. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gaya elevation: 435 m (1,427 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 Gaya'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 437 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.