Elevation of Farasān, Jīzān, Saudi Arabia

Farasān, Jīzān, Saudi Arabia is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Farasān's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: فرسان.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 24 m

Mean 11 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 24 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 23

among the towns of Jīzān, and 166th of 200 in Saudi Arabia.

Cross-section through Farasān

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 Farasān; the vertical scale is the same on both.

42-18WE28.2 km
West to east: from 8 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
42-18NS28.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Farasān, 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.

Peaks and passes near Farasān

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

Where Farasān is

Latitude 16.7054759, longitude 42.1226825. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Farasān elevation: 20 m (66 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 Farasān'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 22 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.