Elevation of Ncotshane, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Ncotshane, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is 416 m (1,365 ft) above sea level.

Ncotshane's height from sea level is 416 metres, or 1,365 feet. GeoNames reads 314 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Phongola Pongola.

Ground within 5 km

277 m – 767 m

Mean 456 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 490 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 50

among the towns of KwaZulu Natal, and 238th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

11.9 km to the N, at 679 m, 263 m higher.

Cross-section through Ncotshane

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ncotshane; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,070217WE27.2 km
West to east: from 587 m at 14 km west to 276 m at 14 km east.
1,070217NS27.2 km
North to south: from 847 m at 14 km north to 422 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Ncotshane, 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 Ncotshane

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hluti (Swaziland) 11.9 kmN 679 m (2,228 ft) +263 m
Lavumisa (Swaziland) 33.1 kmE 161 m (528 ft) −255 m

Where Ncotshane is

Latitude -27.3205196, longitude 31.5654735. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ncotshane elevation: 416 m (1,365 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 Ncotshane'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 314 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.