Elevation of Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa

Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa is 179 m (587 ft) above sea level.

Malmesbury's height from sea level is 179 metres, or 587 feet. GeoNames reads 136 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 101 m.

Ground within 5 km

97 m – 285 m

Mean 179 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 188 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 256th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Atlantis

25.6 km to the SW, at 185 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Malmesbury

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Malmesbury; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 123 m at 13 km west to 244 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 206 m at 13 km north to 209 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Malmesbury, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Malmesbury

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Atlantis	25.6 km	SW	185 m (607 ft)	+6 m
Mooreesburg	33.9 km	N	159 m (522 ft)	−20 m
Paarl	37.3 km	SE	231 m (758 ft)	+52 m

Where Malmesbury is

Latitude -33.451309, longitude 18.72196. 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 Malmesbury'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 136 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.