Elevation of Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa is 543 m (1,781 ft) above sea level.

Alice's height from sea level is 543 metres, or 1,781 feet. GeoNames reads 522 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 522 m.

Ground within 5 km

494 m – 703 m

Mean 584 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 209 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 48

among the towns of Eastern Cape, and 228th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

19.1 km to the W, at 434 m, 109 m lower.

Cross-section through Alice

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alice; the vertical scale is the same on both.

967456WE26.5 km
West to east: from 536 m at 13 km west to 573 m at 13 km east.
967456NS26.5 km
North to south: from 931 m at 13 km north to 562 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Alice, 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 Alice

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Fort Beaufort 19.1 kmW 434 m (1,424 ft) −109 m

Where Alice is

Latitude -32.79224, longitude 26.83596. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Alice elevation: 543 m (1,781 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 Alice'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 522 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.