Elevation of Rāfāt, Jerusalem, Palestine

Rāfāt, Jerusalem, Palestine is 777 m (2,549 ft) above sea level.

Rāfāt's height from sea level is 777 metres, or 2,549 feet. GeoNames reads 774 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Rafat رافات.

Ground within 5 km

638 m – 871 m

Mean 766 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 233 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 19

among the towns of Jerusalem, and 37th of 288 in Palestine.

Nearest town

al-Judayrah

1.5 km to the S, at 728 m, 49 m lower.

Cross-section through Rāfāt

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 Rāfāt; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 392 m at 13 km west to 439 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 781 m at 13 km north to 719 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Rāfāt, 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 Rāfāt

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
al-Judayrah	1.5 km	S	728 m (2,388 ft)	−49 m
Bīr Nabālā	2.1 km	S	767 m (2,516 ft)	−10 m
Kokhav Ya'aqov (Israel)	2.2 km	NE	805 m (2,641 ft)	+28 m
al-Am'arrī (Rām Allāh wal-Bīrah)	2.4 km	NE	815 m (2,674 ft)	+38 m
al-Jīb	2.6 km	SW	740 m (2,428 ft)	−37 m

Peaks and passes near Rāfāt

Mount Scopus, peak at 826 m (2,710 ft), 8.4 km to the S — 49 m above the town.
Mount of Olives, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 10.9 km to the SE — 41 m above the town.
Mitzpatel, peak at 790 m (2,592 ft), 13.6 km to the S — 13 m above the town.

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

Where Rāfāt is

Latitude 31.87, longitude 35.2. 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 Rāfāt'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 774 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.