Elevation of Mosselbay, Western Cape, South Africa

Mosselbay, Western Cape, South Africa is 39 m (128 ft) above sea level.

Mosselbay's height from sea level is 39 metres, or 128 feet. GeoNames reads 43 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 43 m.

Also written: Mossel Bay Aliwal Suid Aliwal South Mosselbaai.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 167 m

Mean 26 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 167 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 280th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

George

37.8 km to the NE, at 230 m, 191 m higher.

Cross-section through Mosselbay

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mosselbay; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 159 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 20 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Mosselbay, 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 Mosselbay

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
George	37.8 km	NE	230 m (755 ft)	+191 m

Where Mosselbay is

Latitude -34.1833333, longitude 22.1333333. 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 Mosselbay'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 43 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.