Elevation of Silame, Sokoto, Nigeria

Silame, Sokoto, Nigeria is 241 m (791 ft) above sea level.

Silame's height from sea level is 241 metres, or 791 feet. GeoNames reads 259 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

232 m – 290 m

Mean 253 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 58 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

33rd of 34

among the towns of Sokoto, and 607th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

13.6 km to the SW, at 242 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Silame

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 Silame; the vertical scale is the same on both.

296226WE28.4 km
West to east: from 231 m at 14 km west to 275 m at 14 km east.
296226NS28.4 km
North to south: from 244 m at 14 km north to 261 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Silame, 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 Silame

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Katami 13.6 kmSW 242 m (794 ft) +1 m
Binji 21.3 kmN 249 m (817 ft) +8 m
Gidan Madi 31.5 kmNE 266 m (873 ft) +25 m
Tangaza 38 kmN 255 m (837 ft) +14 m
Babulada (Kebbi) 38.2 kmS 295 m (968 ft) +54 m

Where Silame is

Latitude 13.04, longitude 4.85. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Silame elevation: 241 m (791 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 Silame'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 259 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.