Elevation of Rafah̨, Palestine

Rafah̨, Palestine is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

Rafah̨'s height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 30 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 54 m.

Also written: Rafa Rafah Rafiaẖ Raphiah Rafah Camp رفح.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 95 m

Mean 47 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 95 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 2

among the towns of Rafah̨, and 273rd of 288 in Palestine.

Nearest town

Rafah̨

2.9 km to the SW, at 65 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through Rafah̨

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rafah̨; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 75 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 83 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Rafah̨, 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 Rafah̨

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rafah̨ (Egypt)	2.9 km	SW	65 m (213 ft)	+25 m
al-Bayuk	3.4 km	SE	64 m (210 ft)	+24 m
Newe Deqalim (Israel)	6.4 km	NE	20 m (66 ft)	−20 m
H̱ān Yūnis (H̱ān Yūnis)	8 km	NE	49 m (161 ft)	+9 m
Banī Suhaylā (H̱ān Yūnis)	8.7 km	NE	84 m (276 ft)	+44 m

Where Rafah̨ is

Latitude 31.296779, longitude 34.243484. 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 Rafah̨'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 30 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.