Elevation of Jolo, Muslim Mindanao, Philippines

Jolo, Muslim Mindanao, Philippines is 44 m (144 ft) above sea level.

Jolo's height from sea level is 44 metres, or 144 feet. GeoNames reads 5 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 70 m.

Also written: Sulu.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 480 m

Mean 105 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 480 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 32

among the towns of Muslim Mindanao, and 343rd of 989 in Philippines.

Nearest town

Anuling

0.8 km to the S, at 62 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through Jolo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Jolo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 262 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 1 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Jolo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 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 Jolo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Anuling	0.8 km	S	62 m (203 ft)	+18 m
Kulasi	14.3 km	S	50 m (164 ft)	+6 m
Parang	18.8 km	SW	27 m (89 ft)	−17 m
Seit	24.4 km	E	25 m (82 ft)	−19 m
Karungdong	33.8 km	SE	22 m (72 ft)	−22 m

Peaks and passes near Jolo

Mount Tumatangas, peak at 811 m (2,661 ft), 7.6 km to the SW — 767 m above the town.
Mount Sinumaan, peak at 785 m (2,575 ft), 10.2 km to the E — 741 m above the town.
Mount Tunggol, peak at 657 m (2,156 ft), 12 km to the E — 613 m above the town.

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

Where Jolo is

Latitude 6.0473648, longitude 121.0089611. 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 Jolo'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 5 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.