Elevation of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is 615 m (2,018 ft) above sea level.

Riyadh's height from sea level is 615 metres, or 2,018 feet. GeoNames reads 612 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: ar-Riyād̨ ar-Riyad Riad Riadh Riyād Ar Riyadh الرياض.

Ground within 5 km

600 m – 658 m

Mean 623 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 58 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 36

among the towns of Riyadh, and 81st of 200 in Saudi Arabia.

Nearest town

H̨ayy al-Qaţţār

0 km to the N, at 615 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Riyadh

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Riyadh; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 640 m at 14 km west to 581 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 628 m at 14 km north to 576 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Riyadh, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 58 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 Riyadh

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
H̨ayy al-Qaţţār	0 km	N	615 m (2,018 ft)	same
'Irqah	14.1 km	W	677 m (2,221 ft)	+62 m
ad-Dir'iyah	14.3 km	W	666 m (2,185 ft)	+51 m
al-H̨awţah (aš-Šarqīyah)	18 km	S	637 m (2,090 ft)	+22 m

Peaks and passes near Riyadh

Jabal Hit, hill at 700 m (2,297 ft), 18.6 km to the E — 85 m above the town.

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

Where Riyadh is

Latitude 24.7116667, longitude 46.7241667. 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 Riyadh'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 612 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.