Elevation of Margate, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Margate, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is 27 m (89 ft) above sea level.

Margate's height from sea level is 27 metres, or 89 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 20 m.

Also written: Uvongo.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 214 m

Mean 42 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 214 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

47th of 50

among the towns of KwaZulu Natal, and 284th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Port Shepstone

16.6 km to the NE, at 52 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through Margate

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Margate; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 187 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 152 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Margate, 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 Margate

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Port Shepstone	16.6 km	NE	52 m (171 ft)	+25 m

Where Margate is

Latitude -30.851339, longitude 30.37871. 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 Margate'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 20 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.