Elevation of Abū Dīs, Jerusalem, Palestine

Abū Dīs, Jerusalem, Palestine is 661 m (2,169 ft) above sea level.

Abū Dīs's height from sea level is 661 metres, or 2,169 feet. GeoNames reads 671 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Abu Dis ابو ديس.

Ground within 5 km

374 m – 812 m

Mean 627 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 438 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 19

among the towns of Jerusalem, and 75th of 288 in Palestine.

Nearest town

1.5 km to the S, at 623 m, 38 m lower.

Cross-section through Abū Dīs

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 Abū Dīs; the vertical scale is the same on both.

845169WE26.6 km
West to east: from 569 m at 13 km west to 216 m at 13 km east.
845169NS26.6 km
North to south: from 655 m at 13 km north to 460 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Abū Dīs, 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 Abū Dīs

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
as-Sawāh̨irah aš-Šarqiyah 1.5 kmS 623 m (2,044 ft) −38 m
al-'Abdaliyah (Jordan) 1.6 kmNW 774 m (2,539 ft) +113 m
aš-Šayẖ Sa'ad 2.9 kmS 612 m (2,008 ft) −49 m
al-'Ayzariyah 3.3 kmNE 421 m (1,381 ft) −240 m
Tura al Gharbiya (Janīn) 3.3 kmW 775 m (2,543 ft) +114 m

Peaks and passes near Abū Dīs

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

Where Abū Dīs is

Latitude 31.763581, longitude 35.257723. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Abū Dīs elevation: 661 m (2,169 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 Abū Dīs'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 671 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.