Elevation of al-Jīb, Jerusalem, Palestine

al-Jīb, Jerusalem, Palestine is 740 m (2,428 ft) above sea level.

al-Jīb's height from sea level is 740 metres, or 2,428 feet. GeoNames reads 749 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 710 m to 749 m.

Also written: Al Jib الجيب.

Ground within 5 km

612 m – 861 m

Mean 748 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 249 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 19

among the towns of Jerusalem, and 57th of 288 in Palestine.

Nearest town

al-Judayrah

1.5 km to the NE, at 728 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through al-Jīb

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 al-Jīb; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 290 m at 13 km west to 454 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 681 m at 13 km north to 739 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around al-Jīb, 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 al-Jīb

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
al-Judayrah	1.5 km	NE	728 m (2,388 ft)	−12 m
Bīr Nabālā	1.7 km	E	767 m (2,516 ft)	+27 m
Giv'at Ze'ev (Israel)	1.9 km	NW	750 m (2,461 ft)	+10 m
Rāfāt	2.6 km	NE	777 m (2,549 ft)	+37 m
Beit Ijza	2.9 km	W	803 m (2,635 ft)	+63 m

Peaks and passes near al-Jīb

Mount Scopus, peak at 826 m (2,710 ft), 7.4 km to the SE — 86 m above the town.
Mount of Olives, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 9.9 km to the SE — 78 m above the town.
Mitzpatel, peak at 790 m (2,592 ft), 12.2 km to the SE — 50 m above the town.

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

Where al-Jīb is

Latitude 31.850988, longitude 35.183104. 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 al-Jīb'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 749 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.