Elevation of Adelaide, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Adelaide, Eastern Cape, South Africa is 593 m (1,946 ft) above sea level.

Adelaide's height from sea level is 593 metres, or 1,946 feet. GeoNames reads 587 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 587 m to 600 m.

Also written: Lingelethu.

Ground within 5 km

565 m – 910 m

Mean 634 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 345 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 48

among the towns of Eastern Cape, and 223rd of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Fort Beaufort

32.2 km to the E, at 434 m, 159 m lower.

Cross-section through Adelaide

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Adelaide; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 805 m at 13 km west to 1,087 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 960 m at 13 km north to 579 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Adelaide, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Adelaide

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Fort Beaufort	32.2 km	E	434 m (1,424 ft)	−159 m

Where Adelaide is

Latitude -32.7, longitude 26.3. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Adelaide'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 587 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.