Elevation of Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa

Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

Plettenberg Bay's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. GeoNames reads 77 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 77 m.

Also written: Plettenbergbaai Plettenbergbay.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 177 m

Mean 42 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 177 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 287th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Knysna

27.7 km to the W, at 204 m, 181 m higher.

Cross-section through Plettenberg Bay

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 Plettenberg Bay; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 232 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 210 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Plettenberg Bay, 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 Plettenberg Bay

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Knysna	27.7 km	W	204 m (669 ft)	+181 m

Where Plettenberg Bay is

Latitude -34.05, longitude 23.3666667. 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 Plettenberg Bay'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 77 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.