Elevation of Jahun, Jigawa, Nigeria

Jahun, Jigawa, Nigeria is 377 m (1,237 ft) above sea level.

Jahun's height from sea level is 377 metres, or 1,237 feet. GeoNames reads 374 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

374 m – 385 m

Mean 378 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 11 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 34

among the towns of Jigawa, and 341st of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

32.8 km to the S, at 392 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Jahun

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 Jahun; the vertical scale is the same on both.

409348WE28.4 km
West to east: from 380 m at 14 km west to 377 m at 14 km east.
409348NS28.4 km
North to south: from 373 m at 14 km north to 384 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Jahun, 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 Jahun

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kiyawa (Bauchi) 32.8 kmS 392 m (1,286 ft) +15 m
Keffin Hausa 35.5 kmNE 365 m (1,198 ft) −12 m

Where Jahun is

Latitude 12.0788907, longitude 9.6257837. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Jahun elevation: 377 m (1,237 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 Jahun'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 374 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.