Elevation of Yola, Adamawa, Nigeria

Yola, Adamawa, Nigeria is 179 m (587 ft) above sea level.

Yola's height from sea level is 179 metres, or 587 feet. GeoNames reads 180 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 599 m.

Ground within 5 km

154 m – 222 m

Mean 173 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 68 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 22

among the towns of Adamawa, and 697th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

10 km to the NW, at 171 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through Yola

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Yola; the vertical scale is the same on both.

498128WE28.6 km
West to east: from 202 m at 14 km west to 162 m at 14 km east.
498128NS28.6 km
North to south: from 242 m at 14 km north to 472 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Yola, 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 Yola

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Jimeta 10 kmNW 171 m (561 ft) −8 m
Jabura 10.9 kmN 198 m (650 ft) +19 m
Girei 19.5 kmN 252 m (827 ft) +73 m

Where Yola is

Latitude 9.2034963, longitude 12.4953899. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Yola elevation: 179 m (587 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 Yola'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 180 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.