Elevation of Jīzān, Saudi Arabia

Jīzān, Saudi Arabia is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Jīzān's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 19 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 40 m.

Also written: Jizan Jisan Qizan جيزان.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 22 m

Mean 2 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 22 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 23

among the towns of Jīzān, and 172nd of 200 in Saudi Arabia.

Nearest town

Abu as-Sala'

0 km to the N, at 12 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Jīzān

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Jīzān; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 20 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 3 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Jīzān, 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 Jīzān

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Abu as-Sala'	0 km	N	12 m (39 ft)	same
Mizhirah	21 km	E	18 m (59 ft)	+6 m
al-Mad̨āyā	23.3 km	SE	7 m (23 ft)	−5 m
al-Badi' wal-Qurfi	26.8 km	NE	59 m (194 ft)	+47 m
az̨-Z̨abyah	27.4 km	NE	42 m (138 ft)	+30 m

Where Jīzān is

Latitude 16.89192, longitude 42.549751. 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 Jīzān'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 19 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.