Elevation of Howick, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Howick, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is 1,016 m (3,333 ft) above sea level.

Howick's height from sea level is 1,016 metres, or 3,333 feet. GeoNames reads 1,048 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,048 m.

Also written: Hilton.

Ground within 5 km

840 m – 1,258 m

Mean 1,068 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 418 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 50

among the towns of KwaZulu Natal, and 173rd of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Mpophomeni

9.7 km to the SW, at 1,091 m, 75 m higher.

Cross-section through Howick

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Howick; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,120 m at 13 km west to 824 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,133 m at 13 km north to 1,101 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Howick, 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 Howick

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mpophomeni	9.7 km	SW	1,091 m (3,579 ft)	+75 m
Pietermaritzburg	20.8 km	SE	649 m (2,129 ft)	−367 m
Wartburg	34.5 km	E	930 m (3,051 ft)	−86 m
Impendle	36.5 km	W	1,555 m (5,102 ft)	+539 m
Mooi River	37.9 km	NW	1,392 m (4,567 ft)	+376 m

Where Howick is

Latitude -29.488171, longitude 30.229879. 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 Howick'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 1,048 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.