Elevation of Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda

Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda is 1,519 m (4,984 ft) above sea level.

Kigali's height from sea level is 1,519 metres, or 4,984 feet. GeoNames reads 1,542 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,386 m – 1,849 m

Mean 1,502 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 463 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 16

among the towns of Rwanda with a reading.

Nearest town

Ruhango

0 km to the N, at 1,519 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Kigali

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 Kigali; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,574 m at 14 km west to 1,412 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,800 m at 14 km north to 1,346 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kigali, 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 Kigali

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ruhango	0 km	N	1,519 m (4,984 ft)	same
Kabuga (Kibungo)	18.2 km	E	1,428 m (4,685 ft)	−91 m
Gitarama (Gitarama)	36.3 km	SW	1,866 m (6,122 ft)	+347 m

Peaks and passes near Kigali

Nyiraruvumu, peak at 1,947 m (6,388 ft), 14.4 km to the NW — 428 m above the town.
Mount Juru, hill at 1,640 m (5,381 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 121 m above the town.
Maranyundo, hill at 1,614 m (5,295 ft), 23.7 km to the S — 95 m above the town.

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

Where Kigali is

Latitude -1.950106, longitude 30.058769. 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 Kigali'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 1,542 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.