Elevation of Port Shepstone, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Port Shepstone, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.

Port Shepstone's height from sea level is 52 metres, or 171 feet. GeoNames reads 36 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 36 m.

Also written: Marburg Gamalakhe.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 228 m

Mean 47 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 228 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

43rd of 50

among the towns of KwaZulu Natal, and 275th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

16.6 km to the SW, at 27 m, 25 m lower.

Cross-section through Port Shepstone

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Port Shepstone; the vertical scale is the same on both.

362-27WE26.7 km
West to east: from 335 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
362-27NS26.7 km
North to south: from 106 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Port Shepstone, 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 Port Shepstone

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Margate 16.6 kmSW 27 m (89 ft) −25 m

Where Port Shepstone is

Latitude -30.721531, longitude 30.4636. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Port Shepstone elevation: 52 m (171 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 Port Shepstone'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 36 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.