Elevation of Goderich, Western, Sierra Leone

Goderich, Western, Sierra Leone is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Goderich's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 10 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 409 m

Mean 45 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 409 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 4

among the towns of Western, and 91st of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

8.9 km to the NE, at 37 m, 30 m higher.

Cross-section through Goderich

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Goderich; the vertical scale is the same on both.

521-39WE28.6 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 76 m at 14 km east.
521-39NS28.6 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Goderich, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Goderich

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Freetown 8.9 kmNE 37 m (121 ft) +30 m
Hastings 17.5 kmE 32 m (105 ft) +25 m
Masoyila (Northern) 22.9 kmNE 31 m (102 ft) +24 m
Tintanfore (Northern) 23.6 kmN 27 m (89 ft) +20 m
Sawkta (Northern) 24.4 kmNE 21 m (69 ft) +14 m

Where Goderich is

Latitude 8.427561, longitude -13.285784. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Goderich elevation: 7 m (23 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 Goderich'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 10 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.