Elevation of ar-Rifa'a, Southern, Bahrain

ar-Rifa'a, Southern, Bahrain is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

ar-Rifa'a's height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 38 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 43 m.

Also written: Rifaa Rifā Ar-Rifā'-al-Gharbi الرفاع.

Ground within 5 km

1 m – 58 m

Mean 24 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 57 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 11

among the towns of Bahrain with a reading.

Nearest town

2.5 km to the W, at 31 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through ar-Rifa'a

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is ar-Rifa'a; the vertical scale is the same on both.

51-10WE27.3 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
51-10NS27.3 km
North to south: from 2 m at 14 km north to 31 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around ar-Rifa'a, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 ar-Rifa'a

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Madīnat H̨amad (Northern) 2.5 kmW 31 m (102 ft) −9 m
'Ālī (Central) 4.9 kmN 14 m (46 ft) −26 m
al-Mālikiyah (Northern) 10.3 kmNW 3 m (10 ft) −37 m
Sitrah (Central) 10.6 kmE 1 m (3 ft) −39 m
Jidh̨afş (Capital) 12 kmN 9 m (30 ft) −31 m

Peaks and passes near ar-Rifa'a

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

Where ar-Rifa'a is

Latitude 26.1093441, longitude 50.5239096. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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ar-Rifa'a elevation: 40 m (131 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 ar-Rifa'a'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 38 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.