Elevation of al-Quway'iyah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

al-Quway'iyah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is 842 m (2,762 ft) above sea level.

al-Quway'iyah's height from sea level is 842 metres, or 2,762 feet. GeoNames reads 819 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: القويعيه.

Ground within 5 km

791 m – 897 m

Mean 846 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 106 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 36

among the towns of Riyadh, and 38th of 200 in Saudi Arabia.

Nearest town

at-Tuwayṯīr

26 km to the SW, at 948 m, 106 m higher.

Cross-section through al-Quway'iyah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-Quway'iyah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 828 m at 14 km west to 756 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 771 m at 14 km north to 880 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around al-Quway'iyah, 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 al-Quway'iyah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
at-Tuwayṯīr (aš-Šarqīyah)	26 km	SW	948 m (3,110 ft)	+106 m
Sah 'Ubaydah (al-H̨udūd-aš-Šamālīyah)	26 km	SW	948 m (3,110 ft)	+106 m

Peaks and passes near al-Quway'iyah

Jabal Ruq‘ān, hill at 953 m (3,127 ft), 11.6 km to the W — 111 m above the town.

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

Where al-Quway'iyah is

Latitude 24.046339, longitude 45.265612. 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 al-Quway'iyah'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 819 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.