Elevation of Jamestown, Saint Helena

Jamestown, Saint Helena is 272 m (892 ft) above sea level.

Jamestown's height from sea level is 272 metres, or 892 feet. GeoNames reads 256 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 616 m

Mean 209 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 616 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 8

among the towns of Saint Helena, and 7th of 10 in Saint Helena.

Nearest town

Longwood

3.3 km to the SE, at 483 m, 211 m higher.

Cross-section through Jamestown

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Jamestown; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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

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

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Jamestown, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Jamestown

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Longwood	3.3 km	SE	483 m (1,585 ft)	+211 m
Saint Pauls	3.8 km	SW	542 m (1,778 ft)	+270 m
Alarm Forest	4.8 km	S	559 m (1,834 ft)	+287 m
Half Tree Hollow	4.8 km	S	559 m (1,834 ft)	+287 m
Levelwood	5.5 km	SE	469 m (1,539 ft)	+197 m

Peaks and passes near Jamestown

Diana’s Peak, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 5.6 km to the S — 546 m above the town.

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

Where Jamestown is

Latitude -15.92213, longitude -5.704682. 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 Jamestown'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 256 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.