Elevation of Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia

Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Makhachkala's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads -10 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Also written: Mahačkala Maxačqala Mahačqala Petrovsk-Port Махачкала.

Ground within 4 km

-27 m – 606 m

Mean 84 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 633 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 12

among the towns of Dagestan, and 940th of 994 in Russia.

Nearest town

Leninkent

11 km to the W, at 175 m, 159 m higher.

Cross-section through Makhachkala

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Makhachkala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 82 m at 12 km west to -27 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from -27 m at 12 km north to 358 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Makhachkala, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 52 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 Makhachkala

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Leninkent	11 km	W	175 m (574 ft)	+159 m
Kaspiysk	15.7 km	SE	-13 m (-43 ft)	−29 m
Buynaksk	35.4 km	SW	465 m (1,526 ft)	+449 m

Peaks and passes near Makhachkala

Gora Kukurtbash, peak at 894 m (2,933 ft), 13 km to the SW — 878 m above the town.
Gora Miskinbash, peak at 867 m (2,844 ft), 22.4 km to the SW — 851 m above the town.
Gora Khurkmatala, peak at 862 m (2,828 ft), 14 km to the SW — 846 m above the town.

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

Where Makhachkala is

Latitude 42.9783677, longitude 47.4910661. 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 Makhachkala'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 -10 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.