Elevation of Owerri, Imo, Nigeria

Owerri, Imo, Nigeria is 73 m (240 ft) above sea level.

Owerri's height from sea level is 73 metres, or 240 feet. GeoNames reads 73 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 158 m.

Ground within 5 km

58 m – 131 m

Mean 84 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 73 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 14

among the towns of Imo, and 837th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

10.5 km to the SW, at 61 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Owerri

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Owerri; the vertical scale is the same on both.

14856WE28.7 km
West to east: from 64 m at 14 km west to 127 m at 14 km east.
14856NS28.7 km
North to south: from 141 m at 14 km north to 66 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Owerri, 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 Owerri

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Obinze 10.5 kmSW 61 m (200 ft) −12 m
Obudi 18.2 kmNW 67 m (220 ft) −6 m
Ilile 20.2 kmSW 55 m (180 ft) −18 m
Umu Igago 20.6 kmSE 115 m (377 ft) +42 m
Umu Akpo (Rivers) 30.9 kmSW 45 m (148 ft) −28 m

Where Owerri is

Latitude 5.4833333, longitude 7.0333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Owerri elevation: 73 m (240 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 Owerri'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 73 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.