Elevation of Rano, Kano, Nigeria

Rano, Kano, Nigeria is 520 m (1,706 ft) above sea level.

Rano's height from sea level is 520 metres, or 1,706 feet. GeoNames reads 526 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

477 m – 587 m

Mean 522 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 110 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 47

among the towns of Kano, and 131st of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

9 km to the SE, at 497 m, 23 m lower.

Cross-section through Rano

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 Rano; the vertical scale is the same on both.

598454WE28.5 km
West to east: from 503 m at 14 km west to 471 m at 14 km east.
598454NS28.5 km
North to south: from 469 m at 14 km north to 573 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Rano, 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 Rano

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kibiya 9 kmSE 497 m (1,631 ft) −23 m
Barkun 11.5 kmNE 457 m (1,499 ft) −63 m
Tarai 11.8 kmSE 524 m (1,719 ft) +4 m
Bunkure 15.6 kmN 478 m (1,568 ft) −42 m
Kumurya 20.1 kmNE 448 m (1,470 ft) −72 m

Peaks and passes near Rano

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Rano is

Latitude 11.5610083, longitude 8.581717. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rano elevation: 520 m (1,706 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 Rano'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 526 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.