Elevation of Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria

Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria is 326 m (1,070 ft) above sea level.

Maiduguri's height from sea level is 326 metres, or 1,070 feet. GeoNames reads 325 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 320 m.

Ground within 5 km

316 m – 336 m

Mean 326 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 20 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 33

among the towns of Borno, and 467th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

15.6 km to the NE, at 308 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Maiduguri

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 Maiduguri; the vertical scale is the same on both.

354294WE28.5 km
West to east: from 338 m at 14 km west to 314 m at 14 km east.
354294NS28.5 km
North to south: from 310 m at 14 km north to 338 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Maiduguri, 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 Maiduguri

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dusuman 15.6 kmNE 308 m (1,010 ft) −18 m
Konduga 35.6 kmSE 329 m (1,079 ft) +3 m

Where Maiduguri is

Latitude 11.8333333, longitude 13.15. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Maiduguri elevation: 326 m (1,070 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 Maiduguri'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 325 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.