Elevation of Bayt Lah̨m, Palestine

Bayt Lah̨m, Palestine is 738 m (2,421 ft) above sea level.

Bayt Lah̨m's height from sea level is 738 metres, or 2,421 feet. GeoNames reads 775 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 775 m.

Also written: Belén Bayt Lahm Bethlehem Belém Bethléem Bet Leẖem Beit Lahm Bethlehem (Beit Lahm) بيت لحم.

Ground within 5 km

543 m – 904 m

Mean 722 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 361 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 22

among the towns of Bayt Lah̨m, and 59th of 288 in Palestine.

Nearest town

Bayt Jālā

1.9 km to the NW, at 779 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through Bayt Lah̨m

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bayt Lah̨m; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 640 m at 13 km west to 261 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 691 m at 13 km north to 790 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Bayt Lah̨m, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Bayt Lah̨m

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bayt Jālā	1.9 km	NW	779 m (2,556 ft)	+41 m
Arţās	2.2 km	SW	743 m (2,438 ft)	+5 m
Bayt Sāhur	2.6 km	E	595 m (1,952 ft)	−143 m
'Aydah	2.7 km	N	777 m (2,549 ft)	+39 m
al-H̱ad̨r	3.3 km	W	833 m (2,733 ft)	+95 m

Peaks and passes near Bayt Lah̨m

Mount Nabi Yunis, peak at 1,030 m (3,379 ft), 17 km to the SW — 292 m above the town.
Mount Scopus, peak at 826 m (2,710 ft), 10.9 km to the N — 88 m above the town.
Mount of Olives, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 9.3 km to the NE — 80 m above the town.

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

Where Bayt Lah̨m is

Latitude 31.705751, longitude 35.202661. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Bayt Lah̨m'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 775 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.