Elevation of Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa

Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa is 326 m (1,070 ft) above sea level.

Oudtshoorn's height from sea level is 326 metres, or 1,070 feet. GeoNames reads 319 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

287 m – 473 m

Mean 359 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 186 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 243rd of 294 in South Africa.

Cross-section through Oudtshoorn

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 Oudtshoorn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 283 m at 13 km west to 322 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 814 m at 13 km north to 444 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Oudtshoorn, 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.

Where Oudtshoorn is

Latitude -33.586929, longitude 22.19825. 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 Oudtshoorn'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 319 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.