Elevation of Honiara, Solomon Islands

Honiara, Solomon Islands is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Honiara's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 49 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 29 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 336 m

Mean 75 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 336 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 35

among the towns of Solomon Islands with a reading.

Nearest town

6.4 km to the W, at 4 m, 13 m lower.

Cross-section through Honiara

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 Honiara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

755-56WE28.6 km
West to east: from 168 m at 14 km west to 8 m at 14 km east.
755-56NS28.6 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 597 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Honiara, 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 Honiara

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tanaghai (Guadalcanal) 6.4 kmW 4 m (13 ft) −13 m
Aruliho (Guadalcanal) 30 kmNW 38 m (125 ft) +21 m

Where Honiara is

Latitude -9.4343868, longitude 159.9609892. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Honiara elevation: 17 m (56 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Honiara'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 49 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.