Elevation of Bayt Sāhur, Bayt Lah̨m, Palestine

Bayt Sāhur, Bayt Lah̨m, Palestine is 595 m (1,952 ft) above sea level.

Bayt Sāhur's height from sea level is 595 metres, or 1,952 feet. GeoNames reads 609 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 620 m.

Also written: Beit Sahur بيت لاحور.

Ground within 5 km

452 m – 842 m

Mean 647 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 390 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 22

among the towns of Bayt Lah̨m, and 92nd of 288 in Palestine.

Nearest town

Bayt Lah̨m

2.6 km to the W, at 738 m, 143 m higher.

Cross-section through Bayt Sāhur

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 Sāhur; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 663 m at 13 km west to 108 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 788 m at 13 km north to 570 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Bayt Sāhur, 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 Sāhur

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bayt Lah̨m	2.6 km	W	738 m (2,421 ft)	+143 m
Za'tarah	3.6 km	SE	594 m (1,949 ft)	−1 m
Arţās	3.9 km	W	743 m (2,438 ft)	+148 m
Bayt Jālā	4.4 km	NW	779 m (2,556 ft)	+184 m
'Aydah	4.5 km	NW	777 m (2,549 ft)	+182 m

Peaks and passes near Bayt Sāhur

Mount Nabi Yunis, peak at 1,030 m (3,379 ft), 17.8 km to the SW — 435 m above the town.
Mount Scopus, peak at 826 m (2,710 ft), 11.4 km to the N — 231 m above the town.
Mount of Olives, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 9.3 km to the N — 223 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 Sāhur is

Latitude 31.697835, longitude 35.228532. 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 Sāhur'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 609 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.