Elevation of Postmasburg, Northern Cape, South Africa

Postmasburg, Northern Cape, South Africa is 1,311 m (4,301 ft) above sea level.

Postmasburg's height from sea level is 1,311 metres, or 4,301 feet. GeoNames reads 1,305 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,272 m – 1,387 m

Mean 1,330 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 115 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 28

among the towns of Northern Cape, and 111th of 294 in South Africa.

Cross-section through Postmasburg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Postmasburg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,282 m at 14 km west to 1,460 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,387 m at 14 km north to 1,291 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Postmasburg, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 57 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 Postmasburg is

Latitude -28.3279, longitude 23.0706. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

Put this on your site

<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/198_205,Postmasburg,Northern+Cape,South+Africa"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/198_205.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Postmasburg elevation: 1,311 m (4,301 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Postmasburg'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 1,305 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.