Elevation of Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa

Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa is 1,218 m (3,996 ft) above sea level.

Kimberley's height from sea level is 1,218 metres, or 3,996 feet. GeoNames reads 1,224 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,184 m.

Also written: Galeshewe.

Ground within 5 km

1,163 m – 1,245 m

Mean 1,208 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 82 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 28

among the towns of Northern Cape, and 131st of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

31.3 km to the NW, at 1,104 m, 114 m lower.

Cross-section through Kimberley

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kimberley; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,2521,153WE27 km
West to east: from 1,176 m at 14 km west to 1,231 m at 14 km east.
1,2521,153NS27 km
North to south: from 1,170 m at 14 km north to 1,160 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Kimberley, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Kimberley

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Barkly West 31.3 kmNW 1,104 m (3,622 ft) −114 m
Ritchie 38 kmSW 1,113 m (3,652 ft) −105 m

Where Kimberley is

Latitude -28.72929, longitude 24.75404. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kimberley elevation: 1,218 m (3,996 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 Kimberley'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 1,224 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.