Elevation of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is 649 m (2,129 ft) above sea level.

Pietermaritzburg's height from sea level is 649 metres, or 2,129 feet. GeoNames reads 636 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: eMgungundlovu Emgungundlovu eMalitzboko Emalitzboko Mokokotlofo Maritzburg Imbali iMbali Edendale Msunduzi Msundini.

Ground within 5 km

610 m – 827 m

Mean 689 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 217 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 50

among the towns of KwaZulu Natal, and 217th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Camperdown

19.2 km to the SE, at 759 m, 110 m higher.

Cross-section through Pietermaritzburg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pietermaritzburg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 910 m at 13 km west to 593 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 737 m at 13 km north to 918 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Pietermaritzburg, 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 Pietermaritzburg

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Camperdown	19.2 km	SE	759 m (2,490 ft)	+110 m
Howick	20.8 km	NW	1,016 m (3,333 ft)	+367 m
Mpophomeni	21.2 km	W	1,091 m (3,579 ft)	+442 m
Wartburg	28.1 km	NE	930 m (3,051 ft)	+281 m
Richmond	30.2 km	S	883 m (2,897 ft)	+234 m

Where Pietermaritzburg is

Latitude -29.6189891, longitude 30.383978. 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 Pietermaritzburg'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 636 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.