Elevation of Bīr Zayt, Rām Allāh wal-Bīrah, Palestine

Bīr Zayt, Rām Allāh wal-Bīrah, Palestine is 763 m (2,503 ft) above sea level.

Bīr Zayt's height from sea level is 763 metres, or 2,503 feet. GeoNames reads 775 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 815 m.

Also written: Bir Zeit بير زيت.

Ground within 5 km

479 m – 872 m

Mean 691 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 393 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 54

among the towns of Rām Allāh wal-Bīrah, and 46th of 288 in Palestine.

Nearest town

Jifna

2.2 km to the SE, at 685 m, 78 m lower.

Cross-section through Bīr Zayt

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 Bīr Zayt; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 396 m at 13 km west to 788 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 603 m at 13 km north to 728 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Bīr Zayt, 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 Bīr Zayt

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Jifna	2.2 km	SE	685 m (2,247 ft)	−78 m
Burham	2.4 km	NW	649 m (2,129 ft)	−114 m
Abu Qash	2.9 km	S	773 m (2,536 ft)	+10 m
al-Jalazūn	3.1 km	SE	739 m (2,425 ft)	−24 m
'Aţārah	3.1 km	N	753 m (2,470 ft)	−10 m

Peaks and passes near Bīr Zayt

Mount Scopus, peak at 826 m (2,710 ft), 19.8 km to the S — 63 m above the town.
Mount of Olives, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 22.2 km to the S — 55 m above the town.
Mount Zion, hill at 765 m (2,510 ft), 22.9 km to the S — 2 m above the town.

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

Where Bīr Zayt is

Latitude 31.975313, longitude 35.196043. 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 Bīr Zayt'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.